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Start your garden with natives

June 04, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

I truly believe that good landscaping and gardening should be compatible with the area – both visually and environmentally. This season, the emphasis is on plants that appear at home in our mountain settings. On that note, we will again make fun of gerbera daisies.
We have a number of plants native to our area, such [...]

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Petal power: Some flowers are both beautiful and edible

May 31, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Flowers, Herb Receipes

The view from the kitchen window includes all varieties of blooming beauties on these late-spring days.
Why not add the petals of some of those flowers to the dishes you are cooking?
The petals of pot marigolds, or calendula, are recommended for salads, as are chive blossoms, rose petals and dandelions.
The bright yellow dandelion you remember from [...]

How the gardens grow at Ingliston

May 27, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

IT promises to be one of the most spectacular displays in this year’s Gardening Scotland extravaganza. Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden’s 16m by 17m exhibit, to be unveiled at the show which opens on June 1, will include 25-foot trees, two ponds and a summer house, as well as hundreds of plants from across the world.
So [...]

Recent snow, low temperatures damage trees and plants

April 15, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Herbs, Plants

We definitely have our limits when it comes to tangling with Nature.
There was very little that could have been done to prepare for last weekend’s cold spell except move container plants into a protected area and cover small stuff, but it’s a little hard to cover a tree. After the event there’s even less that [...]

Compromising is for the birds when it comes to gardening

March 13, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Alan Dawson
To truly garden with birds one must have the right plants. What the birds require and what you prefer may not coincide, but meet them halfway and you can enjoy both your garden and the birds attracted to it.
Flowers, shrubs and trees have several functions in the life of birds. The two major ones [...]

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Barberry MATURE HEIGHT/SPREAD

Japanese Barberry: Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) is the most popular landscape barberry. Many cultivars are available. It grows from 3 to 6 feet tall and 4 to 7 feet wide,

Spirea MATURE HEIGHT/SPREAD

Vanhoutte spirea (S. vanhouttei), the classic bridal wreath spirea, is a deciduous broadleaf shrub that can grow 6 to 10 feet high and spread as much as 20 feet wide.

GLOSSY PRIVET (Ligustrum lucidum)

Mature Height/Spread: This evergreen tree will reach 35 to 40 feet, but can be kept lower as a big shrub. The spread is about 5 to 10 feet. The leaves

Wax Myrtle MATURE HEIGHT/SPREAD

1/3 to ¾ inches wide, sometimes bigger (4½ inches long and 2 inches wide). Inconspicuous flowers appear in early spring, followed by fruit in late summer through winter. The grayish-white

Viburnum SPECIES AND CULTIVARS

The genus Viburnum is immense, and choosing the right selection for your garden is not easy. Listed below is an alphabetical list of the most common species and their cultivars. Maple-leaf

Euonymus CULTIVARS AND VARIETIES

Cultivars of E. fortunei: The cultivars of Wintercreeper Euonymus, which are listed here, are better known than the species itself. * ‘Canadale Gold’ is a compact shrub

JAPANESE PRIVET (Ligustrum japonicum)

Mature Height/Spread:This is an evergreen shrub with a compact growth habit to 10 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide. The foliage is 2 to 4 inches long and

Pyracantha CULTIVATION

Pyracantha prefers full sun to partial shade and well-drained soil. Planting in highly fertile soil will produce rampant growth, which makes the plant more susceptible to fire blight and decreases
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