Arisaema triphyllum - Jack-in-the-Pulpit has flowers which continue to surprise over time – many are green but others have wonderful purple striping. But the excitement doesn’t end there.
Tag: PA
Caring for Winter Damaged Shrubs and Trees
Initially, in many cases all that can be done is prune the broken branches out, always cutting back to a lateral branch or growing point. This, with proper mulching and fertilization will allow the plant the best opportunity to respond with new growth.
Lemoyne Adds Rain Gardens to Streetscape
Lemoyne, PA, steps to the forefront of storm water management with the use of rain gardens, catch and retention basins that are part of the boroughs streetscape revitalization project. The borough is the first in the state to use such techniques in an established community.
Wine Wizard Neighbors
In the borough of Buzzardville, in side by side stone cottages, there live two artists. They turn English yews into animals and tomatoes into wine.
Couple Forges Path to Native Plants
Maybe it was the artist in them. Maybe it was a long held appreciation of the beauty of simple. But almost instinctively they understood they could create spectacular terrain around their home and around their impressive native trees, by copying nature, not taming her.
Planted in Features Also tagged native plants, Spicebush, The gardener of the owl valley, York 3 Comments
Asiatica Open House
This Friday, July 17th, there is the first of several open houses at Asiatica which is a mail order nursery which grows specialty plants, primarily Asian.
Turned into Nature
Today, at Doyle’s farm, birds sing a symphony, actually kinda loud, as Doyle’s peacocks show off their tail feathers and Jackie, as she has for most of her life, tends her plants. Her home is now surrounded by gardens with tall trees and shrubs. Birders travel to her farm to watch the birds she has attracted with her plantings.
Planted in Features Also tagged Doyle Farm Nursery, native plants, The gardener of the owl valley, York 2 Comments
How to Hug a tree? Hire Professional Tree Care
Tree guys are not all the same. In the state of Pennsylvania you need a license to cut hair professionally, but you don’t need a license for cutting trees in the same capacity. Anyone with a saw and a pickup truck can respond to your call for tree work, and say, “I am the man for the job.” It is up to you to decide if that is indeed the case.
