Posted on 04/07/2015 6:37:48 AM PDT by Colehill1999
Its spring time in America - a time when the musky marxists residue of a long winters night is washed away by the cleansing flood of purer more forgiving capitalism. So as you begin searching for plants to purchase for your landscape, lets discuss:
-New and exciting plants for the landscape -Ways to recover from freeze damage -Techniques for planting trees, shrubs, perennials and other plants -General lore, tall tales, and history of gardening
Also, we suffered a lot of free damage this winter in the southeast. After pulling back the mulch on our plants we have applied a top dressing of black kow manure/compost. It seems to be helping get things back on track.
https://www.youtube.com/user/pauljamesgardenerguy Interesting landscape videos from Paul James/Gardening by the Yard. It is an old show from HGTV but still better than all those "Fix it up in a day" yard shows they have now. Those don't teach you much, just aesthetics - no real hardcore info like old Paul use to. Wish he would come back on tv.
Another garden ping!
No experience with the Akebono, but if it sets fruit, don’t plant it anywhere along the path to your door. We have an ornamental pin cherry that drops thousands of small black fruit on the driveway, walk, and porch.
Then people track in the cherries and stain the carpet, no matter how much I remind them, or sweep the walk, porch and drive.
Luckily non-fruiting. One fruiting tree i have a love-hate relationship with is the Sweetgum. In the fall it has great orange leaves. But come January thru March it is a nightmare with the sweetgum balls - those spikey golfball sized demons from hades. People will slip and fall on them, they also are a nightmare for mowers or leaf vacuums, and they love to make their way into the little joints between the concrete driveway.
Our dogwoods are starting to bloom. A few of the Camellias are still flowering out - though they lost most of their bloomheads to the freezes. Burning bush and Serviceberry are doing great - along with the Snowball Viburnum and Shasta Vibrunums - they are the big winners this spring. Don’t seem to have suffered any freeze or water damage at all.
We used to watch Paul James all the time but since he left TV awhile back I totally forgot about him. He looks like he has lost some weight.
“...if it sets fruit, don’t plant it anywhere along the path to your door.”
Excellent advice. My neighbors have a beautiful tree that grows what looks like strawberries. It’s gorgeous, and shades their entry area. And they sweep, and hose, and pressure wash, and struggle with the berries. That tree is a beautiful curse.
And the birds won’t eat the berries either. :)
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