… If you’re reading this article, you may be familiar with some of the challenges that sometimes face older folks: … “P’s,” if you will—enable many older gardeners to carry on. Keeping active in the garden is what our volunteers love best. These scoop-shaped, grip-handled trowels with serrated edges … If you do a lot of pruning regularly, decide if that is pleasurable to you. If not, hunt for some woody plants that maintain their shape naturally. If your perennials have grown into …
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… Peonies are popular garden plants, known for their stunning flowers, their cold hardiness and the huge variety of their colors, forms and … flowers on tree peonies appear 1-2 weeks before those of the herbaceous peonies. ‘Moonstone’ is an award winning peony produced in 1942. The double pale pink almost white flowers are … to part shade with eyes no more than 2” below the soil surface. Deer resistant. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Ruby Spice summersweet is derived from a deciduous shrub native to the eastern U.S. Ruby Spice has prolific, fragrant, … is a medium height shrub growing slowly to about 6 feet high and 5 feet wide and is suitable for borders, screens, or as a specimen plant. Summersweet is tolerant of a range of garden … so unless a natural appearance is desired, the suckers should be removed. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… September Beauty summersweet is derived from a deciduous shrub native to the eastern US. 'September Beauty' has prolific … is a medium height shrub growing slowly to about 6 feet high and 5 feet wide and is suitable for borders, screens or as a specimen plant. Summersweet is tolerant of a range of garden … sucker so unless a natural appearance is desired the suckers should be removed. Archived Copy: This content was captured before February 2022, and is no longer being updated. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Introduced in 2007 as part of the CITY™ Series, Heuchera 'Paris' is a repeat blooming introduction from Terra Nova Nurseries. Paris Coral Bells has green and sliver leaves with dark rose pink flowers. This is a coral bells for part shade and, unlike many other coral bells, it will bloom all summer. It will attract bees …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Nymphaea odorata , the fragrant or American white waterlily, is native throughout North America where it's found in shallow ponds. The typical species has … perfectly circular leaves with a notch. There are also pink and red varieties. It is the basis for many hybrids. The northern variant was formerly classed as Nymphaea tuberosa . This true native species can be seen growing along the shores of the Native Plant Garden to the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Samurai Ginkgo is a form selected by Klehm's Song Sparrow Farm and Nursery for its regular pyramidal aspect. Insignificant green flowers appear in the spring. It is a male … is typical. The Ginkgo is an ancient deciduous conifer and evidence has been found which shows this tree coexisted with the dinosaurs. Ginkgo is sometimes called the maidenhair tree due to its …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Mow grass for the last time and cut the grass quite short. This helps prevent winter injury and reduces snow … garden debris or fallen leaves are left on grass over winter. Avoid walking on frozen grass. This breaks grass blades and mats down turf, creating paths. …
Type: Plant Info
… Jonas Friddle is a singer, songwriter, and old-time banjo player whose songs have received multiple awards … John Lennon Songwriting Award, First Place in the Great American Song Contest and a nomination for Album of the Year in the Independent Music Awards. His tunes bear the marks of a musician who … lithe voice hadn’t already given it away. Amazing stuff.” - Independent Clauses. jonasfriddle.com oldtownschool.org/hireus …
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… Northern or Prairie Dropseed is widely regarded as the most attractive of the American prairie grasses. It is a clumping warm … attractive pinkish haze which is enhanced by back-lighting in early morning or late afternoon. This grass is a wonderful all year plant with bright green foliage in spring and summer, flower … able to cope with drought, deer, black walnut, pollution and clay soils while providing food for insects and birds. Despite the name it does not readily self-seed in the garden and so is a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
