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October – Pruning No-No
Pruning at its best is both art and science but even if we can’t achieve the art everyone should strive for a minimum of harming the plant as little as possible and that means you don’t leave stubs....
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October – plants that shine together in the fall
Not an herbaceous perennial or annual to be seen in this planting but isn’t it glorious right now? If you want a low maintenance planting for sun that looks nice year-round and peaks at an unexpected...
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October – shocking bees?
A flower’s electric field (right, with associated electric potential on the left) helps bumblebees predict where to find the most nectar. Image: Dominic Clarke(Photo from Scientific American website.)...
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October – picking flowers for pollinators
‘Lilliput’ ZinniaPhoto courtesy of Eden Brothers Seeds We often read about plants that are good for butterflies or bees or hummingbirds. We know, for example, that hummingbirds like red, trumpet-shaped...
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PLANT UPDATE – October, Pieris japonica
Pieris japonica 10/20/2013 Pieris japonica, that quintessential Seattle plant, blooms in February/March with a cascade of white bells but it ornaments itself before Christmas in an array of red/pink...
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October – PLANT UPDATE – Cotoneaster lacteus
C. lacteus nicely pruned into a tree form. The berry period for Cotoneaster lacteus is pretty long, clearly it is well-started now and if you go to this post, you can see it in December and February as...
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October – design thought, point of view
I learned years ago when working in a nursery that every plant has a front and you need to consider it when placing the plant either in the ground or in a pot. (It’s true, really look at most plants...
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October – why are true blue flowers so rare?
delphinium, cultivar unknown Delphiniums were one of the first flowers I grew – so tall, so imposing, so deliciously blue – how could they not be one of my first choices when I took to gardening? Other...
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October – Amazing bugs
Andrena barbilabris, From Sam Droege’s Photostream Andrena barbilabris is just a common little bee that likes heaths and sandy areas and seems to be fond of making nests in compacted footpaths in the...
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October- unfortunate examples of plantus rectilinearis
Berberis (barberry) box Outside a Whole Foods in Seattle, I saw these plants. Good plants badly pruned, and probably, wrongly planted. In a year or two I suspect anyone that has to get into those...
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