Snow Damage to Plants Snow damage to plants during a bad snow storm can seem to be devastating at first sight. Sometimes it actually is. The hope is that the plants will rebound and be all right. We had a huge snow event in this area in the days following Thanksgiving. We got over 4…
Curly Fries Hosta Curly Fries Hosta sounds like something you’d order as a side with your next burger. I don’t know how they’d be as a side dish but they are definitely one for the garden. You can see where the fries part comes from in the name, and the curly part is very obvious….
Pineapple Upsidedown Cake Hosta One of my bestest favorites. Pineapple Upsidedown Cake Hosta. It has one of the longest names. It sorta got its name from its parent plant. Pineapple Poll was where it came from. In the Hosta world, as well as many other forms in the plant world, sports can occur. A sport…
Rainbow Drooping Fetterbush Rainbow Drooping Fetterbush, Leucothoe fontanesiana ‘Rainbow’, is an evergreen bush in description only. It is anything but green in color. This is one of my newest additions to my yard. I purchased a nice-sized specimen in a 2 gallon pot back in the early fall. The colors are what drew me in….
Dark Knight Bluebeard. No, I’m not talking about some swashbuckler from years ago. No buried treasures with it either. Arr matey, we’re talking about a plant. This is brushy fragrant shrub that waits until the end of summer and early fall to bloom. This is not the time of year for great flowering shrubs. Caryopteris…
Why are there birds the nursery?? Why are there birds in the nursery? Plants draw in bugs, bad ones as well as good ones. Bugs draw in birds. Since there are many, many plants and trees in our yard, the birds often make their nests here as well. Nesting close to the food supply, pretty…
2020 Opening Day The date for our 2020 Spring Opening Day has been set for Saturday, April 25th. The gates, er, front yard will open at 9:00 and we will sell until 5:00. This does not take into account rain since we sell whether it’s raining or not. We will have many of our usual…
Pruning Hydrangeas Pruning Hydrangeas seems to be one of the great mysteries in the gardening world. Do I prune them in the winter? Should they be pruned after they bloom? Do they even need to be pruned? The list goes on and on. You may be surprised to know that the answer to those questions…
Snow on the Snowdrops Here we are in the early days of March. Snowdrops are beginning to show their blooms. February ended by dumping over 6 inches of snow on the Snowdrops. Our super weather predicter Phil, down in Punxsutawney, proclaimed that we were going to have an early spring this year. Just when it…
Golden Oriental Arborvitae Golden Oriental Arborvitae (Thuja orientalis ‘Aurea Nana’) is one of my favorite evergreens growing in my yard. It is definitely the best looking Arborvitae. And yes, I have more than one Arborvitae growing in my yard. Most people probably think of evergreens as Pines, Spruces, Firs, Hemlocks, and any other tree used…
