Posted in Book Previews, tagged Book Previews, David Deardorff, Kathryn Wadsworth, What's Wrong with my Plant (And how do I fix it?) on November 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
All I can say is…I wish I had this book sooner!
As I was reading What’s Wrong with my Plant (And How Do I Fix It?) by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, I kept thinking – I wish had this book last summer. I really could have used it to diagnose and treat the sawfly infestation on my redtwig dogwood, [...]
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Gardening in Connecticut, Plant Possibilities, Zone 6 gardening, tagged bulb auger, daffodils, how to plant bulbs, landscape design and spring flowering bulbs, methods to plant alot of bulbs quickly, naturalizing bulbs, planting spring-flowering bulbs on November 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Even though it’s almost Thanksgiving, it’s not too late here in southwestern Connecticut (zone 6) to plant spring-flowering bulbs. Because the weather has been seasonable and the ground is not frozen, this is a great time to plant. I ordered 200 daffodil bulbs from Colorblends about a month ago and as you can see from [...]
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Natives, tagged Chionanthus virginicus, old man's beard, small native tree. native flowering tree, white fringetree on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
White Fringetree, Old Man’s Beard, Common Fringetree, Grancy Graybeard. These are all common names for the same relatively unknown native tree, Chionanthus virginicus.
If you’ve never heard of Chionanthus virginicus you’re not alone. Even though it is native to most of the eastern US, it is not widely available in many nurseries.
I’ve been looking for a fringetree to use as [...]
Posted in Bloom Day, Gardening in Connecticut, tagged beautyberry bush, bluechip butterfly bush, doublefile viburnum, Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, kousa dogwood, little henry itea on November 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Here it is the middle of yet another month and that means it’s time to open my garden and let you peek inside and see what’s happening. Here in southwestern CT (zone 6), there’s not too much blooming but I do have some interesting color from the leaves and berries that are still remaining on some [...]
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, tagged asian longhorned beetle, Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station, Montgomery Pinetum on November 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I wanted to pass along some information I recently received about an important educational program being offered next week in Greenwich, CT at the Montgomery Pinetum. The program is free of charge and is open to all interested parties. Just remember to register first…
Connecticut trees are in danger of attack by the Asian Longhorned Beetle. Worcester [...]
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Plant Possibilities, tagged Connecticut College Arboretum, Dr. Douglas Tallamy, Going Native in New England, Laura Eisner and Robin Wilkerson, SALT, Stephanie Cohen on November 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Connecticut College Arboretum is hosting a seminar on Saturday, November 7th called Going Native in New England which promises to be a must-attend event for native plant enthusiasts, like myself. The seminar is part of the SALT (Smaller American Lawns Today) program, started at the Arboretum in 1997.
According to the Arboretum’s website, “ SALT is a [...]
Posted in Book Previews, Gardening Inspiration, Sustainable Gardening on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ornamental Grasses: Wolfgang Oehme and the New American Garden by Stefan Leppert is an interesting mix of biography, history lesson and landscape design primer. For a landscape designer, like myself, previewing the book was like eating a big bowl of my favorite ice cream – a guilty pleasure.
In case you’re not familiar with the New American Garden movement, [...]
Posted in Deer-resistant, Gardening Inspiration, Plant Swap on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For gardeners like me who have deer routinely browsing virtually every plant in their garden, fall can be a particularly disheartening season. While deer-free gardeners are happily planning for all the colorful spring-flowering bulbs they will plant in their gardens, we are left out in the cold with a severe case of bulb-envy. Until now.
If [...]
