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Purple Lovegrass (Eragrostis spectabilis)

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Growing between one and three feet tall with a two foot spread, Purple Lovegrass is a native, warm season, perennial bunch grass that derives it name from the purple-colored flower heads it develops late in summer. Purple lovegrass grows in well-drained, infertile and very sandy soils in open conditions without shading or competition. While it is is drought tolerant it does require average soil moisture content.

Purple Lovegrass Packet $2.00

Cold Frames –No Plants Should Begin Life Without One

Cold frames can play a vital part in your gardening endeavors. They are relatively easy to build and if you’re not that handy with a hammer and nails they definitely make a long-term, very worthwhile, time saving investment. In addition to growing vegetables, cold frames are an excellent place to start new seeds in springtime or to care for cuttings in the fall and winter months of your favorite evergreen plants. In fact, the propagation of a wide variety of new plants can occur in a cold frame. . .

Getting Ready For Spring Gardening

Have you resolved to make your garden the envy of your neighborhood this year? Are you determined to have a garden you don’t need to apologize for? If so, now is the time to start. The first step to having a beautiful garden is good planning. If you’ve kept a log or diagrams of your garden beds over the years to help track what was planted where, and notes about what worked and what didn’t now is the time to . . .

Wetlands – Unique, Productive and Valuable

Historically wetlands were viewed as being useless, tracts of land full of diseases. Today however, wetlands rank equally with tropical rain forests and coral reefs in terms of environmental importance, productivity and biodiversity. As such, wetlands encompass many values including recreational, historical, scientific, and cultural. Wetlands are typically identified by:

Broom Corn – The Plant That Doesn’t Quit

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Broom corn (Sorghum vulgare) is not only a hardy annual plant, it’s a beautiful plant that can last for years following harvest. This fact makes broom corn a plant that has numerous uses. As the botanical name suggests, broomcorn is a variety of sorghum resembling a tall grass that forms imposing and colorful tassel like, fan-shaped seed heads rather than of ears of corn.

Perennials – The Backbone of Your Garden

Many gardeners cherish perennials because they flower, spread and multiply year after year and as such they can form the backbone of your flower garden. This in itself sets them aside from annuals as it eliminates the need to buy and plant new flowers every spring. Perennials are simple to grow, require little maintenance, and as a group are adapted to a wide variety of conditions, including a tolerance for sun and shade and moist or dry locations. In fact, many shade tolerant perennials are planted more for their eye-catching foliage than their flowers.

Ornamental Grasses – Adding Dramatic Flair to Your Garden

Ornamental grasses are becoming increasingly popular as garden and landscaping plants because they provide attention-grabbing qualities that are rarely found in other ornamentals. Including ornamental grasses in any size garden results in a stunning, low maintenance addition that can not only add a unique background for your garden but will also provide texture, form, motion and sound to a garden, not to mention the vast palette of colors and their attractive and often colorful and shapely seed heads. As such, you can use ornamental grasses in much the same way that you use any flower, shrub or tree.

Choosing the Right Gardening Tool

If you are thinking about taking your gardening seriously and getting out there to increase the attractiveness of your garden, then you will want to get the right tools to help you do this. Gardening tools are essentially tools designed to help the leisure and full-time gardener in the quest of owning a landscaped or simply, a well-maintained , fairy-tale garden. If you are a serious gardener you’d like to have a select choice of gardening tools.

Soft Stem Rush (Juncus effuses)

[caption id="attachment_2121" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Soft Stem Rush"][/caption] Soft Stem Rush (Juncus effuses) is a clump forming wetland plant that provides a striking vertical element to any garden or container planting. Soft Stem Rush is a slow spreading, clump forming, grass-like perennial which emerges from a stout branching rootstock. It is among the most productive of freshwater wetland plant species and is readily propagated from bare root stocks, seedlings, container stalks or direct planting into the soil. In the wild dispersal by wind, water or animals due to the small size and tacky outer coating of the seed is the primary means of propagation.

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Canada Golden Rod (Solidago canadensis)

[caption id="attachment_1994" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Canada Goldenrod"][/caption] Goldenrod provides an easy to grow late-season plant for gardeners in search of reliable fall color. It can be used to treat a wide variety of aliments and is an ideal companion plant that not only attracts insects that are beneficial to your garden but these insects eat those that can damage plants. Goldenrod is considered native to the United States of America.

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