tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5000351599426394522024-03-05T10:05:58.190-08:00The DuBrule DiariesNatureworks was started by Nancy DuBrule in 1983. With $500 and an old orange Datsun truck, Nancy began taking care of gardens in the Branford area. Within a year, Natureworks opened a retail store in a converted gas station in Stony Creek. In 1990, Natureworks moved to Rt. 22 in Northford. An older home was converted to the garden center, surrounded by organic demonstration gardens. Natureworks now employs up to 25 people during the growing season including landscape, retail, and office staff.Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-48038885289310422192017-04-17T08:25:00.000-07:002017-04-21T06:13:15.717-07:00Organic Blueberries All Summer Long!It's that time that we fill our benches with a HUGE variety of blueberries. We carry varieties that are ideal for containers, varieties that produce early, mid-season and late. The Dr. Seuss rhyme "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish" is pretty perfect to describe our blueberry selection. There's a variety for everyone. The idea is that with a few different types, you'll have fruit throughout your season. Check in with us about how many varieties you have to choose from!<br />
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Hint- our latest favorite is "Pink Lemonade" which was <a href="http://www.bhg.com/gardening/vegetable/fruit/blueberry-pink-lemonade/">featured in Better Homes & Gardens</a> </div>
Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-20983773398372286012017-04-16T07:21:00.000-07:002017-04-21T06:09:59.713-07:00Why We Love the Organic Herb Bronze Fennel<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Bronze Fennel is an understated herb that does so much hard work for the garden. Here are some of our favorite qualities of this precious herb:</div>
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1. It supports the black Eastern Swallowtail, it is a larval food source for the caterpillar</div>
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2. Tossed in salad, it adds a slight anise flavor that also aids in digestion</div>
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3. It comes back every year in Connecticut</div>
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4. It's bronze color and feathery texture offer an amazing touch of something different even in perennial beds</div>
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5. It turns a gorgeous rustic yellow color in the Fall that looks amazing in the Sun</div>
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Try bronze fennel for a reliable, useful, delicious and beautiful addition to any of your gardens. </div>
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<br />Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-7487718238375919012017-04-15T07:08:00.000-07:002017-04-21T06:09:29.732-07:00Lovely Peonies and Sturdy Peony HoopsThe earlier you prepare for supporting your peonies, the better off they will be. This year, we have sturdy, perfectly-sized hoops to support your precious peonies.<br />
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If you wait too long to put in your hoops, the peonies will grow before your eyes and flop to the ground at full-size. The weight of the blooms makes it difficult to support themselves.<br />
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In the early years of your plant, you may see some of the hoop, but as they grow into full-size, the hoop will become completely invisible and your plant will stand upright.<br />
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We can't get enough of these hoops! We remove them at the end of the season (they snap into a flat shape), store them inside over the winter, and use them again the following Spring.<br />
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<br />Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-73215258547667710072017-04-14T07:01:00.001-07:002017-04-14T07:01:09.363-07:00Last Chance to Plant Seeds Indoors!Some vegetable and flower seeds are best started indoors. We wouldn't be able to put tomato seeds directly in the ground and watch them grow. Instead, we bring them indoors with a seed starting kit.<br />
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1. <b>Heat</b> from the bottom to warm the seeds (use a clear dome to lock in warmth and moisture)<br />
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2. <b>Quality seed starting soil</b> that holds in <b>moisture</b> (Organic Mechanics has micronutrients that support your little seed's early life)<br />
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3. Evenly distributed<b> light</b> once your seeds emerge.<br />
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It's April 14th and the days are getting warmer. Many of the vegetables listed below need a good head start before planting and the window of opportunity is getting smaller. Starting from seed is one of the best ways to get the most variety in your garden (for the lowest price!).<br />
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-Tomatoes -Broccoli -Kohlrabi<br />
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<br />Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-61708110131855888182017-03-16T06:14:00.004-07:002017-03-16T06:14:50.282-07:00Grow Day: An all-day affair on March 25th!Yes, you're absolutely right. 2017 is going to be the best year for growing organic vegetables--EVER.<br />
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To make sure you're ready for the season, we've created an <a href="http://naturework.com/grow-day/">entire day of workshops</a> (9am- 3:15pm with a lunch break) Get the nitty gritty of how to maximize your growing capacity for small spaces. Walk out with your head held high, you'll be feeling confident about growing food from seed. We'll even help you assemble your very own veggie garden plan (not to mention, a few other fun workshops).<br />
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At the end of Winter, it's so fun to dream up your veggie gardens because we are all SO ready to get growing!<br />
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Walk-ins are welcome, or call us to register.<br />
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Our retail shop will be open, so after attending the sessions, you can take a scenic five-minute drive to pick-up all your seed starting supplies and other early garden prep equipment. We'll see you there!<br />
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Find more info here: <a href="http://naturework.com/grow-day/">http://naturework.com/grow-day/</a><br />
Join the event on facebook:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/246818302436146/"> https://www.facebook.com/events/246818302436146/</a>Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-33013554501496844592017-03-16T05:56:00.001-07:002017-03-16T05:56:17.352-07:00Our Incredible EdiblesThis year, Natureworks is doing something new and exciting.<br />
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We're not making anyone pre-order their veggies! We've still created an <a href="http://naturework.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017_incredible_edibles.pdf">Incredible Edible's list</a> that is full of new varieties (hint: there's some dwarf tomatoes we just can't stop talking about). We decided to include the stories of a lot of the types we're providing.<br />
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We chose such a wide selection of heirloom varieties partially because the flavor is beyond compare, partially because they have a rich history that makes us feel part of a homegrown food tradition.<br />
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<a href="http://naturework.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017_incredible_edibles.pdf">Check it out</a>, print at home and put stars and hearts next to varieties you're excited to try. Barring any crop failures, which do happen sometimes, we've made sure each type of veggie will be well-stocked so you get the best selection.<br />
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Not detailed on our list is a great organic herb section. We'll always have types you can't find anywhere else. Stay tuned for what selection is in store. In the meantime, peruse our <a href="http://naturework.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017_incredible_edibles.pdf">2017 Incredible Edible list! </a><br />
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For an extremely low investment that covers a ton of area,
cover crops are the solution to many problems in the garden. Sow them in the
Fall after clearing beds, let them fill your garden with green color (and often
a delicate flower) and chop them back before they go to seed. This will become
what is called “green manure” on your soil. Cover crops will be your first healthy dose of
mulch, and your beds will be weed free, not as compacted and full of good
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See this <a href="http://ctnofa1982.blogspot.com/2016/09/multiple-purpose-cover-crops.html">in-depth view</a> of different kinds of multi-use cover
crops written by our longtime friend, Bill Duesing. Available for sale at
Natureworks- your next best soil therapy</div>
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The New England garden is so full of opportunity in the
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maybe everyone is out trying to soak in every last ounce of sun they can get
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While it’s great for you to be out in the garden doing Fall
chores, we have to ask- is there still color out to delight you during your hard work? And if there
is- do you only see the likes of mums and daisies around? Hey! There’s nothing wrong
with mums and daisies, but maybe you’re looking for something <i>a little different</i>... Something that you
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Maybe that’s just what you need before the cold sets in, a
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So we simply must ask- are these five plants part of your
landscape? Do you have a great team of delightful, surprising garden dwellers
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<b>Helianthus-‘First Light’</b> These lovely late perennial
sunflowers form dense clumps and get covered in flowers. They’re best grown in
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<b>Rabdosia longituba</b>- Nancy came running in with this plant and said
“Can you see why one variety is called ‘Tube Socks?!’” and when you look
closely, you can see this gorgeous bell-like arrangement of tubular flowers
that grow on tall, leafy stems in the shade garden. Wispy, playful and
unexpected, this plant is an underused game changer that should be in every perennial shade garden. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Callicarpa </b>– When this compact, arching shrub starts to fill out, we always seem to hear people shouting “What!? PURPLE BERRIES?!” It matches the magical nature of this time of
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<b>Liatris scariosa</b>- with a species name that sounds like
“scary-osa”, it’s a perfect October bloomer. It also loves those rocky, sandy
soils and makes an excellent cut flower for your late-season bouquets. When you
see the flower, you’ll understand why it’s commonly called ‘Blazing Star’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Colchicum and Fall Crocus</b>- Fall blooming bulbs are the
forgotten children of the garden. Usually when we think of bulbs we’re
thinking of popping in things like bulbs like Tulips and Daffodils in Fall for Spring blooms. But what about bulbs
you plant in late Summer/Early Fall for FALL blooms? Colchicum are completely
pest proof. Although they're large bulbs, they can be nestled between perennials
to fill your drab areas with color. Same with Fall-blooming crocus, consider growing saffron crocus with a delightful orange stamen that is harvested for the spice saffron.
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<b>Winter Berry</b>- A native plant that <b>serves a purpose</b> every time of year. The foliage gets brighter and
better as the months grow colder until it eventually drops its leaves and shows
off its brilliant red berries on slick dark stems. We use these berry-covered stems for stunning
Christmas arrangements, and the birds use them for a much needed late season snack. One male
plant is sufficient to pollinate 6-10 female plants, so get one of each to
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some of the late season soldier, here are some of the late season classics : Sedums, Asters and Anemones
provide pollen for our late pollinators and make for amazing photos when filled
with sleeping bumble bees on the cold mornings. Keep on planting!</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-41088914259482019412016-04-18T12:51:00.003-07:002016-04-18T12:51:59.768-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It's spring at last and you know what THAT means... Tons of really cool plants are arriving at Natureworks every day. As I wandered the benches early Saturday morning, I was thrilled to see the selection that has already appeared. Here are some highlights.</div>
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Let's start with some <b>NATIVES</b>. Our American Beauties native benches are filling up quickly. I constantly find people browsing this section as most of us are trying to use a lot more native plants in our landscapes. In bloom now is one of my favorites- spicebush. As you drive around you will spot this in flower in wet woodlands. It looks like a mist of soft yellow. If you scratch the bark, you will smell the spicy aroma. This is the larval food plant of the</div>
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spicebush swallowtail. The red summer berries are beloved by birds. Another interesting native is sweet fern. It isn't a fern at all, but the foliage is delicate and it also smells wonderful when you crush it. This plant forms colonies in dry, poor soil. It is a workhorse for those difficult areas and grows 2-4' tall. It is also a butterfly larval food plant. Our native plant benches contain blueberries, elderberries, cranberries, and Aronia (chokeberries). We even have a new, dwarf Aronia melanocarpa 'Low Scape'. It has the same white flowers and edible black berries but only grows 2' tall. This is a fabulous landscape plant! </div>
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Naturally, we have lots and LOTS of <b>native perennials</b> as well. One entire area is devoted to woodland wildflowers such as trilliums, bloodroot, Zizia, Virginia bluebells, Uvularia, Tiarellas, and so much more. </div>
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We have Geum triflorum, also called prairie smoke. They are grown for their very cool seed pods. These are the biggest plants we have ever stocked. We are stocking some of our favorite late fall asters now so you can get them to grow big and lush by October. Baptisias are arriving, along with many Echinaceas. </div>
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Have you heard about the <b>Cocktail Series </b>of Geums? I have loved the genus Geum for a long time. They bloom early and come in rich colors. Lately, the hybridization of Geums has brought us long blooming varieties that are great cut flowers. "Flavors" include 'Alabama Slammer' (shown above), 'Tequila Sunrise', and 'Mai Tai' to name a few. They look great combined with perennial bachelor's buttons and early dwarf Iris pumila. Speaking of which, we have a full selection </div>
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of these early blooming gems in right now. My favorite is 'Baby Blessed', a soft yellow variety that blooms heavily in early May and repeats reliably in October and November. We also have purples, blues, and other colors in stock. If you love irises and want to enjoy them really early, these are for you. </div>
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Do you grow perennial foxgloves? This is Digitalis thapsii, a very lovely variety with soft pink flowers. These appeared on our benches last week. We also have the rare oriental poppy 'Patty's Plum', the old fashioned, classic early white Phlox 'Miss Lingard', and an unusual YELLOW Weigela that Ken Druse spoke about at the CT Horticulture Symposium this winter called 'Canary'. It is a a pale, creamy color and will tolerate a bit of shade. It blooms a lot earlier than the others. </div>
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Even our miniature plant collection is growing. Shown above is Phlox subulata 'Betty', a teeny tiny creeping phlox that has been happy in my courtyard for nearly 10 years. Those are my fingers shown in the picture. We also have Allium thunbergii 'Ozowa', a plant that won't bloom until November but a diminutive delight that is really hard to find. If you plant it now, when in blooms in late fall you will be <i>very</i> proud of yourself!</div>
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I could go on and on. It's a wonderful time to be a gardener. Stretch your horizons and plant a few new things in your landscape this year. Whether you are doing so just for <i>beauty </i>or perhaps trying to enhance the <i>habitat potential</i> of your yard, it will do your soul good to get outside and start planting!</div>
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This summer, from July 8-17th, I am going on a trip to England. This is something I have been dreaming about since I began gardening. I have studied books, plans, blog posts, websites, Pinterest pages, Facebook pages, and everything else I could get my hands on. It is finally going to happen! I am working with an excellent travel agency that is very experienced with running garden tours to England and Europe. They customized this tour just for me. The cost is $3800 for 10 days. That excludes airfare. </div>
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<b><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden">http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle-garden</a></span></b></div>
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I didn't want to ONLY see the large, famous estates. This trip will also include many private gardens AND a garden designed by my favorite European designer, Piet Oudolf. <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">RHS Garden Wisley is
home to some of the largest plant collections anywhere in the globe.The Glasshouse will
feature fuchsias when we are there. Leading up to the Glasshouse are borders
designed by Piet Oudolf in 2001 that are at their peak in the summer months.</span><br />
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The gardens in England will all be at their peak at this time of year. <i>Consider this the ultimate ten day garden walk with Nancy!</i> I am still working out the details in terms of our exact itinerary and the registration form. The cost will be approximately $3800 for the trip, which includes 9 nights in country boutique hotels, admission to the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and all the gardens, tips and gratuities, coach transportation, and most meals. Airfare it not included in the price. The trip is limited to 25 participants and 3 spots are already taken! </div>
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If you are interested, please email me DIRECTLY at</div>
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I will continue to post pictures and information about all of the gardens we will be visiting over the next few weeks- TWENTY in all! Please share this with all of your friends who may be interested. This will be an exciting, education trip that all garden lovers will remember for the rest of their lives. Won't you come with me to England?<br />
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It's the second week of November and the garden is finally starting to simmer down. I have been gradually cutting back herbaceous perennials as they go dormant, resulting in lot of empty spaces beginning to reveal themselves in the gardens that surround my house and design studio. Those empty spots will remain empty until the perennials emerge and fill out next year. In many cases, that won't happen until late May or June or beyond. Enter the wonderful world of hardy bulbs.</div>
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It is a November ritual for me to plant spring and early summer blooming flower bulbs. I haven't missed a fall doing this since I began gardening. My love affair began with daffodils, perhaps because I am an April baby and they are the most prolific flower in bloom during the month of my birth. Plus, they are so easy, hardy, naturalize well, and smell so sweet. </div>
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Seldom do we have daffodils left in November but this year, we reordered quite a few times and still <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdHi_P9c-58jWg6DRycK7P6nwaIdrtOyNGt7uJztxPtlhjTA1j2dzV33MSmWw0GEjA6oOjFZHQxr2LEGzlYkY3YyWIfoOgBIt_K6c-a0kr1_wcdulJp_KoibW_7UVu88N5QO2-e0uPbpA/s1600/Daffodil_Rip_Van_Winkle_hellebore.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdHi_P9c-58jWg6DRycK7P6nwaIdrtOyNGt7uJztxPtlhjTA1j2dzV33MSmWw0GEjA6oOjFZHQxr2LEGzlYkY3YyWIfoOgBIt_K6c-a0kr1_wcdulJp_KoibW_7UVu88N5QO2-e0uPbpA/s200/Daffodil_Rip_Van_Winkle_hellebore.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>
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have some nice varieties: 'Cassata' which is a pale yellow and white butterfly type, 'Passionale' (white with a salmon pink cup), good old 'Dutch Master' with giant yellow trumpet flowers, and a couple of cute dwarfs such as 'Rip van Winkle, the double star shaped "Sputnik" variety shown with a Hellebore blossom in the accompanying photograph.</div>
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Hyacinths are another wonderful April flower that are quite resistant to damage from deer and voles. They smell heavenly and are very perennial in my garden. In fact, I prefer my hyacinths to be 2 or 3 years old. By then, they send up clusters of much smaller flowers that have a delicacy that the first year blooms don't have. I pick them and put them in vases throughout the house. I remember on one of my April birthdays I had to teach a garden design class. One of the students, who had lived for many years in Hawaii, made me a lei made of fragrant hyacinths! <br />
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Hyacinths come in so many startling colors, and they pair perfectly with daffodils. Can you see the lighter texture of the flower above? It is three years old in my garden and ideal for fresh spring arrangements. </div>
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Grape hyacinths come in lots of colors. My absolute favorite is sky blue Muscari 'Valerie Finnis'. I also like the pale pink forms. These clump up well and reappear as a larger drift year after year. Yes, they do smell faintly of grapes and make wonderful bedside bouquets.</div>
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We also have lots of wonderful Allium bulbs still in stock. My favorite, <i>still</i>, after all these years of gardening is the Star of Persia, Allium cristophii shown above. It is a true star burst, yet it isn't very tall, only about 12" in height, but the flowers are big and round. Everyone asks about them and I like to pair them with perennials that bloom at the same time, in early June, such as Nepetas and cranesbill geraniums. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you ask any of my staff, they will tell you that their favorite Allium is 'Purple Sensation'. This is a deep, rich, purple, medium sized globe flower. It has naturalized throughout our gardens, blooming with Baptisias and bearded irises, created a magical wonderland of color and form in late May. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not all Alliums are big and round. Bright yellow Allium molly is a great edging bulb. It spreads nicely and will come up through all kinds of blooming, perennial ground covers. It is seen above with Allium cristophii in one of our gardens.<br />
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If you love the color blue, you will adore wood hyacinths. Often called English bluebells, these pretty masses of blue flower spikes flower in May and make long lasting cut flowers. <br />
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Another blue beauty is Anemone blanda 'Blue'. Called windflowers, there are anemones for spring and fall. The spring blooming bulbs are a snap to plant, they are tiny and easy to pop into the ground. This photo was taken on the south side of the shop where they have been spreading beautifully for the past few years. We have them in our gardens in blue and white and everyone wants to know about them. Unusual, diminutive, minor bulbs can steal the show from larger tulips and daffodils simply by their delicate nature. <br />
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Spring wouldn't be complete without the sight that takes your breath away: a lawn filled with naturalized Scilla, Chionodoxa, and crocuses. All three are small bulbs, super easy to slip into the earth. They move around a lot. I know of a street near Yale where the seeds of these beauties have been blown up the street. You can see the pattern of the wind. Now, yard after yard is filled with this gentle color. It only lasts a little while, but when it is happening, there is magic in the air. <br />
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Crocuses come in different sizes and bloom periods. Giant crocuses bloom in March; snow crocus or species crocus bloom in late February or very early March, right after the snowdrops. We have lots and LOTS of crocuses in stock, and I am very tempted to plant a crocus lawn along Rt. 22 this year. <br />
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Another diminutive bulbs that spreads well in lawns and naturalized beds is called Pushkinia. It is shown above. You thought Scilla was blue? Think again. Pushkinia is the softest, true blue imaginable. We have had them in the Natureworks gardens for over 20 years. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Talking about bulbs wouldn't be complete without mentioning tulips. Yes, we do have at least 4-5 varieties of large tulips still in stock and on sale including a couple of frilly parrots and some very early April bloomers. But what you really must discover are the species tulips. These are true perennials. We have had clumps of them reappear in our gardens for decades. Many folks ask about them because they don't really look like tulips as we think we know them. Because the bulbs are tiny, they are quick and easy to plant. The flowers open up like stars before your eyes. We still have yellow, pink, and red varieties in stock. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-g52dqTkYelMjXupSa7hfAVPQm8Ou8RES3E3ocmauHl9gpOw5tjNOuXxm1XZcPUx1turTBLY-mOfd6vk0HCx8J4rg6wUxuOYtwgftBAmIHYAV7fEwiwBAFUtFvOUhZ6QYQpTiKIM3v4/s1600/Collins+in+May+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-g52dqTkYelMjXupSa7hfAVPQm8Ou8RES3E3ocmauHl9gpOw5tjNOuXxm1XZcPUx1turTBLY-mOfd6vk0HCx8J4rg6wUxuOYtwgftBAmIHYAV7fEwiwBAFUtFvOUhZ6QYQpTiKIM3v4/s320/Collins+in+May+001.jpg" width="320" /></a> Bulbs, bulbs, and more bulbs to choose from. Don't let November pass you by without putting in some hardy bulbs. You will be SO GLAD YOU DID when spring of 2016 rolls around.<br />
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One can never have too many bulbs. Pick a nice fall day and get outside, soak up the precious sunlight, and dig in the earth one last time before you are forced to hibernate indoors for the winter. It is a very worthy endeavor. <br />
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What a gift we have been given, 70 degree weather in the first week of November, 2015, warm soil, blue skies, an absolutely perfect reason to keep on planting. Here is a listing of some of the plants still on our benches as of this writing:</div>
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We have lots of Delospermas (ice plants), sedums of all sorts, hens and chickens, and a nice range of sun tolerant, dry soil loving perennial succulents.<br />
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Sedum 'Angelina' is yellow all summer and turns a pretty shade of orange in the winter.<br />
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The new Sedums 'Cherry Tart' and 'Firecracker' are wonderful low mounds of colorful foliage with September flowers of deep rose. We even have the very unusual Sedum 'Thundercloud' with cut leaves and white flowers.<br />
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I found many large pots of Persicarias in the back and dragged them out to the benches. They are labeled 'Orangefield' and 'Blackfield' and they bloom for 2-4 months if deadheaded. <br />
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Echinacea 'Cleopatra' is a really nice, bright yellow coneflower. There are a smattering of other varieties on the benches as well.<br />
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Veronicastrum crinita is a great, native ironweed that very tall and great for butterflies. It grows 4-6' tall. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We planted up a lot of fall containers with Oregano 'Kent Belle'. These plant loves full sun and good drainage and makes a really long lasting cut flower.<br />
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There are quite a few of the burgundy leaf elderberries (Sambucus 'Black Lace'). This is a pretty foliage plant that also has soft pink flowers followed by purple berries that the birds eat right up. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is ONE buttonbush left. This is an August blooming native shrub that has rounded, white orbs of flowers followed by the coolest round seed pods. Got clay soil? Doesn't mind a bit.<br />
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We also have some 'Polaris' blueberry bushes. They are half-high varieties, a cross between our high bush types and the low bush blueberries with the super sweet fruit found growing all over Maine. Growing only 4' tall, they are perfect for the smaller yard and have really delicious fruit.<br />
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Physocarpus 'Lemon Candy' is an eyecatcher. The new growth is brilliant, and it is a very durable, easy care border plant that grows only 6' tall. I spotted one still kicking around in the nursery yard.<br />
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We have lots of Nepeta 'Purrsian Blue'. This is a very compact catmint with pretty blue flowers. Deer don't bother them and the tidy form makes it perfect for the front of the border. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are even some unusual perennial Alliums still out on our benches. This is Allium senescens 'Glaucum', a great little dwarf that blooms in September.<br />
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Other plants include<br />
Iris ensata 'Variegata'- 2<br />
Iris ensata 'Lion King'-1 <br />
Hosta 'Risky Business-2<br />
Hosta 'Patriot'-3<br />
Hosta 'Guacamole-2<br />
Boehmeria nopononivea 'Nichivin'-1<br />
Lathyrus vernus-5<br />
Rudbeckia 'Viette's Little Suzie'-3<br />
Baptisia 'Blue Towers'-1<br />
Kalimeris integrifolia 'Blue Star'-2<br />
Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue'-2<br />
Picea abies 'Acrocona'- 1<br />
Astilbe 'Purpurkuze' (Purple Candles)-4<br />
Gentiana semptifida 'Lagodechiana'-1<br />
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If you have your heart set on some of these plants, do call first to make sure they are still in stock.<br />
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Our half price sale on outdoor plants runs thru November 6th or until the plants are sold or planted in our gardens. Hurry in today! <br />
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was a lovely day to work in the garden and BOY did my garden need a <span class="SpellE">tuneup</span>. I realized when I was done that for beginning
gardeners, it could be very useful to understand what the late July garden needs
and specifically how to deal with some of the challenges we all face at this
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I began my day with high hopes of getting
some planting done. I had about a dozen perennials and annuals that I have been
trying to get in the ground. I mixed up a "batch" of <span class="SpellE">Quoddy</span> lobster compost and Pro Gro. I filled a watering can
with Organic Plant Magic solution. As I started getting ready to plant, I found
myself weeding and deadheading instead. How did the garden get like this,
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My 'Sentimental Blue' dwarf balloon flowers (Platycodon) had suddenly stopped flowering and formed hundreds of seed pods. Instead of getting around to individually deadheading the flowers, I simply cut them all off and cut the plants in half. I did this last year and they came back and bloomed again for me in the fall. At that point I let them go to seed; now I have lots and LOTS of dwarf blue balloon flowers sprinkled throughout the borders. I had to "de-gunk" my daylilies. Is that a real term? Well, no matter what you call it, I had to deadhead the stalks and then use my hand to comb out all of the yellow and brown leaves. Any daylilies that will repeat bloom (I have 'Fragrant Returns', 'Happy Returns', and a few others) got a couple of shovels full of my magic compost/fertilizer mixture spread around their base. I also noted that a couple of my older daylilies really needed dividing. I never got around to it last fall, I MUST do it this fall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My 'Highland White Dream' Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum) was done. I cut the flowers back about halfway down the stems; I will go back in a couple of weeks, once the leaves turn yellow, and cut the flower stalks down to the ground. A new clump of fresh green basal foliage will then emerge, but this variety will not bloom again. My later blooming 'Becky' Shasta daisies still had plenty of nice flowers and buds coming along so I just did a bit of sporadic deadheading on them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I started digging into the garden where I was going to add new perennials and annuals, I realized that the soil was bone dry below the surface. So every hole was filled with water and allowed to drain before I planted anything. That made me realize that my beautyberry bush (Callicarpa) was in bloom along the edge of my Norway spruce border. This is a really dry spot due to root competition. It is SO important to water beautyberries now as the flowers are becoming berries. No water, the berries don't form or fall off. I moved my hose to the base of this shrub and left it there to deep soak the area while I finished digging the holes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had originally set out to replant one of the containers on my deck but that would have to wait. I realized that my Baptisia was engulfing the Sedum 'Autumn Joy' and all of it's neighbors. I gave it a hand pruning to shape it and <i>cut windows</i> for the plants below. Then I began the crabgrass wars. How could all these baby crabgrass plants possibly have just appeared overnight in the cracks between my stepping stones and every tiny bit of bare earth? Believe me, there isn't much bare earth <i>left </i>in my gardens. I knew if I got it out now, at an early age, it wouldn't go to seed and spread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, I got to that pot on my deck. I removed the Nemesias and pansies and added four new annuals- Angelonia, Fuchsia 'Gartenmeister', Euphorbia heterophylla 'Variegata' (shown above), and a purple impatiens. A wacky combination of plants with very different needs. I danced around 6 self-sown evening scented fragrant Nicotianas that had appeared from the year before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is what I ended up with- a GIANT wheelbarrow filled with weeds, spent blossoms, and garden clippings. Pretty good for a day's work. After hauling it to the compost pile, I decided to give myself a reward. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I picked the very first ripe fig of the season and ate it in one big bite. Sorry Tony, dear husband of mine, but that one was for me! I then wandered through the gardens, sticking my nose in my fragrant lilies. </span><br />
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watching the giant wasps on the mountain mint, observing bumble bees
covered in pollen, nibbling on 'Sungold' cherry tomatoes and fresh
raspberries, and soaking up the beauty of my patch of paradise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The High Line was originally a raised railroad track that brought trains into the meatpacking district. As tractor trailer trucks eventually replaced railroad transportation, it was abandoned and became a dangerous eyesore. It remained abandoned for 25 years. It was scheduled to be torn down and was saved at the very last minute in 1999 by The Friends of the High Line. It is now owned by the City of New York and is a public park. But this is not just any park. It is actually a linear park, stretching nearly two miles. Five million people walk The High Line every year.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the day that we visited, even though it was extremely hot, the park was crowded with visitors. I heard so many different languages spoken all around me; this is a popular tourist attraction. Locals could be seen sitting in the shade of the birch groves, reading or sleeping. There was live music, art everywhere, food vendors selling everything from popsicles to gelato to espresso. There was an interactive gigantic Leggo display and an area where water flowed over the pavement and everyone took off their shoes and walked barefoot. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The park was designed by the landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations and architects Diller, Scofidio, and Renfro. The planting design was done by Piet Oudolf of the Netherlands. I have been studying his work for a long time and have visited Millenium Park in Chicago a few times, another one of his United States designs. Words cannot express how exciting it was for a plant geek like me to finally walk The High Line.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The impression that I walked away with was that the juxtaposition of wild looking, loose, prairie-type, native plants growing with abandon against the hard lines of the cityscape surrounding it made the whole thing simply magical. What a concept! A mass of Amsonia hubrechtii with Veronicastrum virginicum behind it framing the Empire State building in the distance. Billboards for expensive handbags with a sea of rattlesnake master Eryngium interwoven with Liatris at it's feet. </span></span><br />
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I was thrilled to realize that Natureworks already sells so many of the plants that we saw on Sunday. But, of course, there were many more that I didn't know and had to learn about. I took tons of pictures and when I returned home, studied the July blooming plant list given to us. I then went onto the High Line's VERY excellent website and downloaded the complete plant list they provided. Mysteries were solved and I was able to match photographs to plant names. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Magnolia macrophylla, the bigleaf magnolia, had us all talking. It was so tropical looking.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My FAVORITE! Silphium terebinthinaceum, also called prairie dock, with massive shiny leaves and tall spikes of yellow flowers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suzanne is shown here talking to Karen, both Natureworks employees who enjoyed the trip. Suzanne planned this entire trip and she did a great job.</td></tr>
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Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-65260483490296571412014-09-10T10:00:00.000-07:002014-09-10T14:25:47.322-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I just returned from Stowe, Vermont and I found so many beautiful gardens to visit and enjoy. My all time favorite is at the Trapp Family Lodge. Set high up on a mountain top, the lodge has vast gardens to grow flowers, herbs, and food for their guests. They have done a lot of work on the gardens in the past few years and they are a delight. </div>
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The gardens are a perfect example of a large, edible landscape. Stone pathways meander through generous beds. I was lucky enough to visit on an overcast day so I could snap a few photos. Of course, everything <i>always</i> looks better with a stunning mountain view in the background!</div>
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As I wandered around, I could just imagine what the arrangements of fresh flowers would look like inside the inn. Snapdragons of every kind were in abundance as were large stands of colorful, annual statice. The vast acreage made for masses of color. Yet, this was not your typical cutting garden or food production garden. It was laid out beautifully, for strolling and enjoying.</div>
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Cattle grazed in the field below. I realized I was singing "The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music" to myself. </div>
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Back down the mountain, as I traveled around the village of Stowe, I decided that I was in "The Land of Phlox paniculata". It was absolutely everywhere, huge stands, in every color of the rainbow. Driving the back roads, garden phlox formed the backbone of every garden I saw. Joe Pye weed filled the fields; I don't think I have ever seen so much of this native perennial in my life. It was intermingled with flat topped aster- Aster umbellatus. I fell in love with the native aster and am determined to add it to my own wild gardens. </div>
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Sadly, the river that runs through Stowe, which was adjacent to our motel, was surrounded by invasive Japanese knotweed. While walking the recreation path, this plant was everywhere, blocking the view to the river, clogging up the edge of the trail. As I drove around the area, I could see that Japanese knotweed has become firmly established in this beautiful countryside. </div>
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I returned home to a completely overgrown garden. The heat wave of last week and the prolonged dry spell had really stressed out my gardens. Two consecutive Sundays away (the day I usually spend in my own gardens) made for quite a mess. I spent my first day home deadheading, chopping back giant sunflower trees that had bent down to block my path, harvesting baskets full of tomatoes, peppers, beans, lettuce, and escarole. I felt overwhelmed in the morning, tired and satisfied with the progress I made at the end of the day. The sweetest surprise? The Joseph's Coat amaranth I had planted from seed in July took my breath away with it's beauty when I rounded the corner to the south side of my house. Heat? Drought? No problem. This plant appears to love those conditions. This annual is a keeper; I hope it self sows, but I am going to plant it again next year just to be sure!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy's Garden: Looking Back, Looking Forward</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2013 was a very productive year in my edible garden. I managed to plant a reasonably good succession of vegetables from spring until fall. I had a few favorites, a few failures, and many happy successes. The last weekend of the year is a great time to review the good, the bad, and the delicious... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My number one success story is my new peach tree bed. In the fall of 2012 I decided to give my husband a peach tree for his birthday. He LOVES peaches. I spent many weekends digging out gooseneck loosestrife and sifting the soil to prepare it. I planted the tree and surrounded it with divisions of culinary chives plants, 5 'Top Hat' dwarf blueberries, and 5 assorted high bush blueberries. This bed is right next to my back garage, my garden shed of sorts, where I often sit to rest and survey my kingdom. The peach tree got lots of tender loving care, not to mention Organic Plant Magic, worm castings tea, and water. Well! We watched those peaches develop and ripen and when they were ready, they were the juiciest, most delicious fruit we have ever tasted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My next success story was growing greens. I guess I have never really appreciated greens as much as I have this year. I had lettuce constantly, including in the summer when I planted varieties that could take the heat. I grew frisee endive, escarole, chicory, and spinach. I seeded them in early and again in late July. My fall crops of greens were unbelievable. Salads became a regular part of our diet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2013 was the year I finally understood how to grow brocolli raab, one of my husband's favorite vegetables. I guess I was always expecting it to look like the bunches we bought in the store. Instead, I realized that I just had to keep picking those little flower heads every day, along with the young leaves, and they would keep forming for weeks and weeks. We ate so much of this healthy green vegetable that we couldn't believe it. I planted my first crop in April, with the moon phase. I planted my second crop in July, again in synch with the moon. I will not be without this plant in my garden again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also had great success with a fall crop of bok choy and learned all kinds of interesting ways to make my own stir fries with fresh ginger root and other veggies. I intend to plant this again in 2014. It is really quite easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My biggest failure was that I neglected to THIN my fall crops of carrots and beets. They came up so profusely and then I got really busy. By the time I got back to them, they were all entangled and thinning was close to impossible. I will NOT do that again. I am going to try all kinds of ways of sowing these seeds so they are not so close together. I have heard that mixing them with sand helps. I have seen people make their own seed tapes. I could create a little template by drilling tiny holes in an old yardstick. Whatever... I love these root crops too much to waste them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I grew the best crop of kale ever, but found out that, although I love to cook with kale, my husband didn't enjoy it at all. Naturally, my spring crop continued to produce great guns until late in the fall. I found myself bringing a lot of it into work to give away. I will probably still plant it next year, but a lot less. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My biggest frustration was my cucumbers. I actually created a brand new raised bed for them by my driveway because I had been plagued by disease and cucumber beetles in my main garden. At first they were very happy. By late summer, they started suffering from watersoaked spots on the leaves and the production diminished. This is one crop I need to really study. There is nothing like a cucumber tomato salad in the summer time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Erich Bender, the veggie master at Natureworks, gave me a seedling of 'Cocozelle' squash early in the spring. That turned out to be the most productive summer squash plant I have ever grown. The vine survived surgery to remove squash vine borers and continued to produce delicious squashes right up until hard frost. That is a variety I will grow from now on. Thank you Erich!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The one thing I did differently in 2013 that really paid off is that I paid a lot more attention to watering my edible plants. We had a few long stretches of very dry weather, especially in the fall. I monitored the amount of moisture in the soil closely under the straw mulch. I do not have an irrigation system. My method was to use a series of buckets and watering cans. Each time I deep soaked my plants I treated them to either Organic Plant Magic or worm casting tea that I constantly brewed from tea bags in a large bucket. I would see the difference immediately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All in all, I was quite pleased with my food production in 2013. I miss my garden already and have already eaten all of the potatoes I had stored. There are a few bags of peppers and green beans in the freezer, plenty of garlic still to enjoy, and a few bags of frozen plum tomatoes to make into sauce over the winter. Good thing that I can work on my seed orders now. It keeps my dreaming about all the food I will be growing in 2014. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What were your successes and challenges in YOUR edible garden? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-39889966473344293882013-12-18T05:13:00.001-08:002013-12-18T05:13:33.361-08:00<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nancy's Garden: Looking Back, Looking Forward</span><br />
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As we approach the winter solstice and the new year, it is a good time to gather our thoughts and take stock of the gardening year that has just past and start to think about the growing season ahead.<br />
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I have spent the last month cleaning up my gardens, planting the last of bulbs, and trying to get my tools in order. Taking advantage of every sunny day, I found myself in deep reverie about my successes and failures of 2013. As I cut plants down, I realized I had some serious new favorites all of the sudden. I also spent quite a bit of time lamenting some things I did wrong and vowing to improve in 2014. Plus, I have already compiled a list of "must have" new plants. I will share my thoughts with you in a series of blog posts. Perhaps my musings will encourage you to also put your thoughts down in words. It is a fitting exercise for this time of year.<br />
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Let's start with a couple of my new favorite plants. Topping the list is 'Top Hat' blueberry. I have to say, I planted six of these little beauties last fall, mainly as a border around my new peach tree bed. Growing only two feet tall and wide, I was stunned by the amount of super sweet fruit that kept on producing long after my other high bush blueberries were finished. Plus, this plant is cute as a button in every season, even now when covered with snow. This will become a mainstay in my edible landscaping designs.<br />
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The plant that impressed me the most with it's long bloom season was our native Sanguisorba canadensis. The white bottle brush flowers started in early September and continued until the first week in November, providing a never ending source of nectar for bees and other pollinators. I just couldn't stop photographing these unusual flower spikes. Last fall I moved it from a border near a stand of trees to an open spot in deeply dug, enriched clay soil. Well! That made all the difference in the world.<br />
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Think about it. What plants really made an impression on you this year? Sometimes it's not the flashy, sexy hybrids that make my list. In this case, it's a couple of hardworking natives. <br />
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<br />Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-80216369512768236022013-10-07T09:15:00.002-07:002013-10-07T09:15:33.729-07:00A Connecticut Gardener Visits Nantucket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just returned from a weekend on Nantucket island. My husband and I attended the wedding of my godson. It was what they call a "destination wedding". People came from everywhere to share in this happy occasion. We arrived Friday afternoon.<br />
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I have never been to Nantucket before although I have been hearing about how quaint it is for years. The minute we stepped off of the high speed ferry, I was enchanted. It is a garden-lover's paradise. I could imagine what it looked like in the summer when everything was in peak bloom. I have never seen so many hydrangeas in my life! Every house, every business, every public space had hydrangeas. The flowers of the mop head hydrangeas were past, but they were plentiful and it didn't take much imagination to picture how beautiful it looked a few months ago. There were fall blooming Hydrangea paniculata varieties everywhere as well. Welcome to the Hydrangea capital of New England! The cobblestone streets, the clipped hedges, the climbing roses and vines, the cute little courtyards- sigh....<br />
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But what really got me was the windowboxes. Every single store and just about every house had lush, imaginative container plantings. As my husband and I took our first stroll around downtown, I could see that he didn't have the patience to stop with me as I took pictures. I made a plan.<br />
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Saturday was a free day as the wedding wasn't until 5:30 p.m. I left my husband in the room reading and relaxing and went out for a walk with my camera. The sky was overcast, perfect for taking pictures.<br />
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One plant I noticed everywhere was the grass Stipa tenuissima, Mexican Feather Grass. This is a plant I don't use much in my designs as it is only hardy to Zone 7. Now I want to try it in my container plantings. It was so soft, I had to pet it. I also saw it in many gardens. Above it was used in a traditional design with geraniums and variegated English ivy. Below it was combined with dwarf evergreens and Algerian ivy, a much more contemporary look. I saw both styles everywhere I went.<br />
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Many of the windowboxes looked as if they had just been freshly re-planted for the fall tourist season. Others were so abundant I could tell they had been growing for months. I was very impressed with the design talents of the Nantucket gardeners.<br />
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One thing I noticed were the dog bowls filled with water outside of every shop. Nantucket is a dog lover's paradise. They are a integral to the local color as the flowers.<br />
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I purposely strayed off the main shopping streets and wove my way through side streets and nearby neighborhoods. I peered in through gates to the most charming little gardens. Clipped, carefully pruned and tended shrubs formed the bones of these landscapes. Besides the ever-present hydrangeas, there were roses (mostly pink, narry a 'Knockout' in sight). The seed pods of sweet autumn clematis smothered buildings and roofs.<br />
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Lichen hung in great clusters from the trees, similar to the way Spanish moss drapes from trees down South. I saw Vitexes with big, thick trunks, bigger than I ever imagined they could get in the North. Boxwoods were everywhere, in every shape and size as were other formal shrubs such as Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil'.<br />
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The little spot above was a combination of tender perennial Eugenia triple-ball topiaries, evergreen Liriope, yellow sweet potato vine, and Bacopa. The fence enclosure was also common. Door yard gardens held in by picket or iron fences were in the smallest of front yards.<br />
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The containers that were used were varied, but invariably high end. I saw quite a lot of faux boise concrete, from planters to benches, chairs, and tables. <br />
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Of course, aged cedar to match the signature cedar shakes on all of the houses was very common. <br />
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The modern look was also easy to spot. Black fiberglass containers or metal pots filled with succulents, black mondo grass, Phormium, and other foliage accents drew me like a magnet. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The yellow plant in the middle of this pot is Euphorbia 'Sticks on Fire', a really striking form of pencil cactus. The flowers were coming from an Aloe tucked in amongst the Sedums. </td></tr>
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I recognized almost all of the plants I saw, but I was inspired to use them in many new ways. I wish I had a few more days to wander on a bicycle and really take in all the beauty Nantucket has to offer. I was dying to ride out to the large cranberry bog which I knew would be ablaze in red fall color. I wanted to see some of the more naturalistic, wilder places on this pretty island. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I loved this windowbox and didn't recognize the grass-like plant below the fuchsia with the spiky golden yellow flowers. I need to look this up and learn how to use it in some containers next year. What fun! </td></tr>
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When we finally arrived at the wedding venue on Saturday evening, even the front of THAT
establishment was decked out in proper style. Champagne bottles bedecked
with beads graced the windowboxes and the cherub was wearing a pink
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Herbs were growing in wine boxes near the dock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite peppermint scented geraniums were combined with pink roses and zinnias outside of a shop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These wooden trellises were stuffed with soil and moss and planted from top to bottom. Notice the dog bowl in the background, of course!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delicate, lacy scented geraniums had a spicy smell.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The windowboxes were filled with giant, lush ferns. I saw ferns of all types used everywhere.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruby red chard added an edible element to this street side combination.The cobblestones were actually round rocks, very hard to walk on but oh so charming. </td></tr>
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As we were waiting for the ferry to go home, I spotted a fairy garden installation outside a tourist shop on the dock. A young man and his mom were admiring it and we chatted about fairy garden building for a while. The shop owner encourage him to participate and he ran off to the water's edge to collect some shells to add to what I realized was an ever-changing fairy landscape. <br />
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I want to go back to Nantucket some day and spend a few days in the summertime traveling around and seeing the gardens in all of their glory. I had better start saving my pennies now. It is a lovely, but very expensive place to visit. I am so lucky to have had the chance to discover and explore this beautiful island. <br />
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August 20, 2013<br />
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I ventured into my garden Sunday morning and noticed that my zucchini squash plant was looking a bit wilted. Having already lost one plant in this bed to squash vine borer, I dropped to my knees and examined the stem. Horrors! Just as I suspected, the vine had an orange frass coming from it and there was a hole in the vine. I pulled out my trusty pruning sheers and carefully made a linear slice
where I saw the frass. Aha! I immediately found the culprit, the
destructive squash vine borer.<br />
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I then mixed up soil and water and Organic Plant Magic in a bucket and slathered the resulting mud on the vine. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Then I turned on the hose and set the spray nozzle on sprinkle and watered the leaves of the plant for about 10 minutes. This was to help the leaves recover from the shock of cutting open the stem that supported them.<br />
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The next morning I was happy to see that not only was the plant happy, the three little zucchinis that had been forming had doubled in size.<br />
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The squash vine borer comes from a moth that lays it's eggs on squash plants. The eggs become the borers and as they tunnel up the stems they kill the plants. At the garden center on Saturday this was a constant topic of conversation, also at the farmer's market on Friday. One way to help prevent this damage is to spray the vines with a strong garlic spray to repel the moths. Another is to cover the plants with floating row covers as they are growing and removing it after they flower. Unfortunately, this moth cycles through a few generations in Connecticut so you are not safe once you take the cover off. A third approach is to use beneficial nematodes in late spring to kill the squash vine borer larvae in the soil before they hatch.<br />
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I have operated on my squash plants before with great success. The surest way to keep your plants healthy is to scout every day and look for that orange frass on the vines. Although the plants naturally wilt a bit in the hot late day sun, if you see them wilting even a little in the morning or on a cool cloudy day, scout some more and pull out your scalpel. It is not hard to do and totally worth it for the delicious harvest you will gain for your efforts. <br />
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This week I am greedily inhaling the intoxicating scent of the last of my trumpet and oriental lily flowers. Every time I walk outside I bury my nose deep in a blossom and then I shake my head in awe. There is no perfume like it.<br />
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I work really hard to have these lilies because of the red lily leaf beetle. I start scouting and squishing in the spring and keep at it until mid-July when they finally bloom. It is totally worth it. I have four stands of lilies and they all soar nearly 6 feet tall without staking. Their stems are strong and sturdy.<br />
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One stand of lilies is intertwined with a fragrant tree, Clethra barbinervis, which blooms at the same time. Talk about pure joy! Not only does this combination smell heavenly, it also looks amazing right next to my deck. The bees and wasps and other interesting pollinators love this tree.<br />
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As I enjoy these lilies for one last week, I can't help but feel sad that it will be another full year before I smell that incredible fragrance again. I remember feeling the same way about the last of my 'Nancy Nora' peonies and the Viburnum carcephalum. I adore fragrant flowers. Of course, they are so fleeting, gracing my garden for two, maybe three weeks, and then they are gone. It is a lesson it truly living for every moment. I am trying to enjoy every fragrant flower to the utmost every day I am on this earth. I keeps me tuned in to the cycles of life and makes me realize just how precious these gifts truly are.<br />
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As the lilies fade, the Clethra alnifolia (Summersweet) is opening. In the next few weeks I will be stopping by that plant every day and smelling a completely different sweet perfume. Life is good in the garden. Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-57830960812922750122013-07-17T05:37:00.003-07:002013-07-17T05:37:42.476-07:00What's Bugging You in July?<br />This is what our Natureworks customers are asking about this week...<br /><br />
<b>Slugs</b>- If you see holes and chew marks on your plants but never see a bug eating them, it's very likely that you have slugs. These are basically snails without shells. Yuck! They only feed at night or on very rainy, cloudy mornings. They hide in mulch, leaves, or other garden debris during the day. You can go out at night with a flashlight and see them hard at work. They can climb up really high on a plant. Don't be fooled! We use all natural Sluggo (iron phosphate) sprinkled around the base of the plants every three weeks. Before sprinkling Sluggo I pull aside the mulch and clean up a wide circle of any debris, leaving the soil exposed. Some people like to trap slugs using a shallow cat food can sunk into the ground filled with stale beer. Yeast and water will also do the trick. You then empty it every morning and refill it every night. For me, that's way too much work. But it will catch a lot of slugs!<br />Earwigs- These destructive pests also feed at night. They are long and skinny and have pinchers at the top of their heads. They climb way up into your butterfly bushes, Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium), and other summer flowers and devour the leaves. Sluggo Plus is the solution. This is iron phosphate with the addition of Spinosad which will kill the earwigs when they return to ground level. To trap them, place a cardboard paper towel tube at the base of your plants in the evening. The earwigs will hide in the tube and you can pour them into a bucket of soapy water in the morning.<br /><br /><b>Holly scale</b>- All week long people have been bringing in "specimen bags" of holly that is covered with a black sooty mold. The mold is a symptom of an insect called holly scale (cottony camellia scale to be exact). This looks like a cottony white, linear mass which lives on the undersides of the holly leaves. It exudes a sweet, sticky sap. The black mold, which is what most people see first, grows on the sweet sap. Right now, the white casings that you see are actually empty as the eggs have hatched. Eventually the little crawling insects will lose their legs and be permanently attached to the vascular system of the leaves until next year. AFTER the heat wave you can spray with Neem or a low viscosity summer horticultural oil, making sure to spray the undersides of the leaves. In late March, spray your holly plants with dormant oil. I spoke at length with an entomologist at the CT Agricultural Experiment Station. They are a wealth of information. If you have specific questions you can call them at 203-974-8600.<br /><br /><b>Black spot</b>- The roses are really starting to show signs of stress due to the excessive rain and humidity. Black spot is a
fungus that turns the leaves black and then they fall off. My crews have
been preventively spraying Oxidate and Actinovate to head this fungus
off at the pass. If you have black spot already, open prune your roses
(I will be demonstrating this at the garden walk this Saturday) to
increase air circulation to the middle of the plant and remove ALL
diseased leaves from the ground below. Garden santitation is critical.
Then, spray the plants with liquid copper to kill the fungus spores. Do
this ONLY in the early morning when it is cool. A few days later, foliar
spray the roses with liquid seaweed (sold as Stress X, a powder that
you mix with water) or Organic Plant Magic which is compost tea. Both
will help your roses fight off the fungus and grow strong and refoliate
again. In mid July I feed all of the roses a second time using Pro Start
and compost. This routine really works and the roses burst back into
bloom quite quickly and continue flowering into the fall!<br /><br /><b>Japanese beetles</b>- I am on the warpath! Many mornings a week I go out to the garden with a plastic jug filled with soapy water and a tablespoon of canola oil and sneak up on the Japanese beetles that are feeding on my plants. Monday morning, after another round of this chore, I mixed up a batch of Neem and sprayed many of the plants to further control this destructive pest. I know which plants they are on: raspberries, roses, evening primrose, weeping cherry, and Persicaria. I didn't spray the raspberries as they are in full fruit and I didn't want to spray the berries. I sprayed everything else. Neem kills an insect when they ingest it so using it on the leaves of the affected plants provides a bit of longer term protection until I can make my early morning beetle runs again.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKGSAyM39TMLefus2J_fNnJj2kLErtqnvoWak_h0G9xXf-0mVyqEYa2S3xgMtoCqCECcn9ibU8G_rgGNulAFOQMZ-Dv7W4kdZW5a6Jp-wnOUFNTXRi9MYqLi7HFFE0BoQowgrq5g15ag/s1600/Japanese+beetle+adult.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOKGSAyM39TMLefus2J_fNnJj2kLErtqnvoWak_h0G9xXf-0mVyqEYa2S3xgMtoCqCECcn9ibU8G_rgGNulAFOQMZ-Dv7W4kdZW5a6Jp-wnOUFNTXRi9MYqLi7HFFE0BoQowgrq5g15ag/s1600/Japanese+beetle+adult.jpg" /></a><br /><b>Hibiscus sawfly</b>- I noticed the telltale damage from this little green worm-like creature about 3 weeks ago and sprayed with Neem. I checked my plants every few days and they have been clean...up until this weekend. Another round of Hibiscus sawflies hatched recently. I used the same Neem spray on my perennial hibiscus plants, making sure I sprayed the underside of the leaves. That should protect my plants until they start to bloom which will be in August.<br />Before we suggest an organic remedy for any pest problem we always ask a lot of questions to be able to identify the pest correctly. We NEVER tell people to blanket spray their gardens "just in case". Because the good bugs that eat or parasitize the bad bugs are hard at work in an organic ecosystem, it is critical to know your enemy and target it accurately. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 257</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's mighty cold outside for the week after St. Patrick's day. The plants were rejoicing earlier last week with the warm, mild weather. They bravely appeared the minute the snowbanks above them melted. Snowdrops, snow crocus, Hellebores all opening their faces to the warm sunshine, celebrating the season of rebirth. Alas, winter weather returned. Snowflakes flying, frigid temperatures, bone chilling cold making it very uncomfortable to continue the pruning chores I had so hope to accomplish over the weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I look out my window I see my Iris histrioides 'George' flowers facing down the upcoming snow and ice storm with fortitude. They are so small and precious. I have been studying their progress all week from emerging buds to a fully open patch of purple beauty. Right next to them is an ancient 'Nova Zembla' rhododendron. The leaves on this plant give me an instant read on the temperature outside. I don't need to see a thermometer to know that I need to layer up today. The rhododendron leaves are curled up tight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The contrast of my brave little irises and the curled rhododendron leaves remind me once again of the fact that March is the cruelest month in my opinion. You are teased by spring-like days and you feel that fever rising. The return of snow and ice is so much harder to take when spring is so close. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need to learn some new coping skills to deal with this phenomenon. It is an all too familiar feeling. Scented candles, soothing music, a fire in the fireplace, and looking at hundreds of digital photos of flowers on my computer as I prepare for various talks I have to give all help. I focus on one of my favorite quotes, shared with so many friends for so many different reasons: "Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." </span>Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-5837389599247599262013-03-11T14:09:00.002-07:002013-03-18T05:42:59.117-07:00Getting a Jump on Spring Pruning<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 256</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have to admit, this has not been my favorite winter of all times. I am slowly working my way out of a funk, most likely brought on by my impending milestone 60th birthday. Friends in their mid-sixties, seventies, and beyond laugh at my angst. I know, it's a bit ridiculous, but there it is, sitting there, laughing at me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I don't like winter, and I especially don't like March. I get all excited when the snow melts and the snowdrops bloom and the witch hazel flowers and I believe spring is around the corner. Then good old Mother Nature dumps 14" of snow on my yard and I just want to crawl under the covers and hide until April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday and today I pulled myself up by my big girl bootstraps and decided to get started on cleaning up my yard. Needless to say, it is a mess. Broken branches everywhere. Blueberries snapped off. Low hanging Norway spruce branches still pinned down to the ground by wet snow. One 'Midwinter Fire' twiggy dogwood completely encased in snow, like a snow mummy, just emerging today with half the plant springing back into the light. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to tackle my climbing roses and clematis arbor first as it is right by the garage and the snow had melted in that bed. I dragged out the ladder, set it up, climbed on, and the ladder sunk 6" in mud. I wiggled around a bit until it was properly balanced in the mud evenly (a new skill I just learned, by the way) and proceeded to prune away. The roses were easy. I cut off tons of dead wood, thinned the branches, tied them to the trellis, and voila I had made order from chaos. The clematis was also a snap- I cut it to the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What? To the ground you ask? How did you have the courage to do such a thing? You must know the name of it, you must have looked it up on a clematis pruning chart... Nope. When I moved into this house I met this clematis for the first time. No label to be seen. I watched it for an entire growing season. Purple flowers appeared in July and continued coming until the fall. Aha. This clematis blooms on new wood. The following spring, I cut the entire rat's nest of vines out of the two climbing roses and pruned it to the ground. Every year since then it has climbed the arbor, entwined with the roses, and been happy as can be with it's annual new lease on life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a clematis that you don't know what to do with, you can figure it out too. By observing it for a year, you can track when it blooms. If the flowers come out in May and June and then there are no more flowers, it blooms on last year's wood. The time to prune it is right after blooming, in late June and early July, and then leave it alone for the rest of the growing season. If it doesn't flower at all in the spring but starts to flower in July and continues for the summer and into the fall, it blooms on current year's wood. You then have my permission to cut it to the ground every spring and enjoy a fresh, new plant each year. If your clematis blooms in May and June, takes a rest from flowering, and blooms again late summer or fall, it blooms on both last year's and this year's wood. You have a couple of options. If you are like many people who don't understand clematis and have consequently left your vine alone for years in fear of damaging it, you have a giant tangled mess on your hands. In that case, cut it down in the early spring, sacrifice the early bloom season, and get control back of the plant. You will still enjoy the late season flowers. If it looks pretty good and you don't feel like it will tear down the trellis anytime soon, do a light pruning in the spring and a second light pruning in late June or early July after the first heavy bloom period finishes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poking around outside these last few days was good for my spirit. It soothed my soil to get muddy and use my muscles again. When studying the plants up close, I can see they are getting ready for spring just as I am. Buds are swelling and I find myself being extra careful not to step on the bulbs that are poking their noses up everywhere. There's hope! </span><br />
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<br />Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-14570853787874732762013-02-15T13:52:00.001-08:002013-03-11T14:07:47.554-07:00The Harvest is In!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 255 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been glued to my computer screen for the past few days. I have two gardening classes to teach tomorrow and I have been creating my Powerpoint presentations all week. This means that I pour through all of the digital photographs that I have taken in the past year and attempt to update my slide shows. It is really easy to get lost in this process as the pictures bring back so many wonderful garden memories and inspire dreaming about the growing season that is just around the corner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally took a break, pulled on my knee-high rubber boots, and ventured out into the yard with my pruners and loppers in hand. It was time to harvest some pussywillows for the CT Flower Show next week. I could see from the kitchen window that they were starting to open. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine my surprise to find my purple witch hazel (Hammamelis vernalis 'Purpurea'). in FULL BLOOM. How did that happen in a week so filled with snow and winter chaos? I spent nearly fifteen minutes carefully picking off the dried brown leaves that clung to the plant. Why does this happen some years and not others? Does anyone know? Anyway, I really didn't mind as it gave me a chance to be outside in the sunshine on this surprisingly mild day. I cut many branches of this native tree. With every cut I considered how this plant had completely split apart in the October snowstorm of 2011. My cuts were guided towards creating a stronger woody structure with wide angled crotches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next I turned to the Cornus sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire'. What a display this has been putting on for me all winter long. It is perfectly located to catch the rays of the setting sun. I cut an armload of the most colorful branches and made a note to continue to do so all month and into late March. Cutting these colored twiggy dogwoods encourages lots of young new growth that has the brightest color. If it is allowed to get to woody, the color fades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hadn't yet made it over to the pussywillows. I slowly trudged to the border, sinking above my boots in the very wet snow. The black pussywillows (Salix melanostachys) were starting to crack. The fasciated pussywillows were already opening. I cut off lots and lots of long, architectural branches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I headed back to the deck and the only outdoor spot free of snow where I could arrange my bounty, I passed my 'Arnold's Promise' witch hazel. I could see the color in the cracking buds. I cut a bunch of branches, again with an eye on building a strong framework for this tree that also split wide open a couple of years ago. (I successfully bolted it back together.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One more item to harvest-winter jasmine (Jasmine nudiflorum). I have been cutting this all winter and the yellow flowers unfold within a day in the house. It's on the south side and I figured the snow would be lower, but no. More snow in my boots, but it was totally worth it to see the flowers showing color on this February afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My husband was surprised to come to the back door and find me sitting in the sun, surrounded by vases filled with branches I had just cut. "The harvest is in" I told him, holding up a bouquet of purple witch hazel. He shook his head in wonder. Who knew so much bounty could exist in the winter landscape? You just have to be determined enough to wade through the deep snow to get to it. </span>Nancy DuBrule, Natureworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18158480172109061539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-500035159942639452.post-65564683943001326602013-01-26T06:38:00.001-08:002013-02-15T13:51:46.878-08:00Embracing Winter<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lonicera fragrantissima buds were swelling a few weeks ago during a warm spell. I brought them into the house and they perfumed my office for a few days.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 255 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not a fan of winter. The older I get, the colder I get. I miss my flowers desperately. They feed my soul. I look outside at the barren landscape and I think to myself "I should find this beautiful". Instead, I find myself wishing for color, lushness, greenery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I could say that I vacation in warm places every winter but, so far, I haven't done that. For many years I took care of my elderly parents and only went away on business trips, all the while worrying that something would happen to them while I was gone. Contrary to what most people imagine, when you own a garden center and landscaping business, winter is a really busy time. You have to buy all of your products for the following year, organize your employees, take inventory, and design and estimate new landscape jobs for the coming spring. In the early days of my business, I was so poor that I did everything myself and began the spring completely exhausted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, in year thirty, I have excellent help. My parents are gone. And this is the first winter ever that I actually have had time to rest, relax, and think straight. It is an amazing gift, to be time rich. So back to embracing winter. I spend a lot of time in my home office which is a sunroom. I have a great view of the outdoors, with birdfeeders next to the window and a lovely sunset that includes a long view of blue hills framed by 'Midwinter Fire' orange twiggy dogwoods. Why aren't I content? I am wishing for something else. I am not soaking up what is in front of me now- the white snow, the serenity, the calm emptiness of this season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night it hit me. I woke up in the middle of the night and ventured downstairs to get a drink of water. I looked out at the deck to see that a dusting of snow had fallen. Wait a minute, the deck was covered with sparkling diamonds. I knew it was supposed to snow last night. Why was it sparkling? I looked up at the sky to see the bright moon shining on the newly fallen dusting of snow. I looked out at my yard and the entire yard was sparkling. It was then that I truly appreciated the gifts of this season. </span><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It took a mere three days for my witch hazel to fully open. The first time I stuck my nose in the flowers and smelled that familiar spicy scent I was in heaven. Can the flower show be far behind?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I awoke this morning and sat at my computer and watched the hungry birds feeding. I took photos of all of my houseplants and forced branches that are making my home a cozy little patch of paradise. I thought about the next three days stretching ahead of me, long, luxurious, and perfectly suited for writing, designing, and being creative without the pressure of the busy season bearing down on me. I get it. </span><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My friend Lucy gave me a double Hibiscus plant that she propagated. I is so pretty!</td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last year Fran, from the African Violet Society, gave me a rooted leaf of this gorgeous African violet. He should see it today. I now love to grow them, as my mother did before me.</td></tr>
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucy also rooted a cutting of sweet olive, Osmanthus fragrans, for me. This teeny tiny white flower has the most powerful fragrance. </td></tr>
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