#nativegardening

[driftlessroots]

#Cypripedium parviflorum #orchids #wisconsin #wildflowers #flowers #nativeplants #nativegardening

[neelueyadav123]

https://nurserylive.com/collections/indian-states-flowers-and-trees

[colwynn-design]

This is Oregon Grape (Mahonia repens). The first pic was from the high altitude (10,000 ft / 3,000 m) town of Breckenridge CO, the second at sea-level in California, snapped within one week of each other in late June. The yellow flowers normally appear in Spring at lower altitudes, but only appear in Summer in Alpine areas. The Blue berries appear after the yellow flowers fade, and the leaves turn red in the fall/winter. This groundcover is one of my favorite plants native to the western USA.

[wolfsilveroak]

Hoorqy, the few native Virginia Bluebelks came back *and* are getting ready to bloom! No sign of the native Dwarf Crested Iris or native Johnson's Beardedtongue yet, but its early still. #nofilter #nativeplants #gardenersofinstagram #nativegardening #gardensofinstagram #bluebells #virginianativeplants #garden #fiveoaks #bedfordcountyva #dantesspirit (at Dante's Spirit) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbiBwlXrL58/?utm_medium=tumblr

[wdcgardener]

In the newest episode of the #GardenDC Podcast, we talk with Shari Wilson of the @nutsfornatives blog about #nativeplants. The plant profile is on Sunflowers and I share my thoughts on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the garden. You can listen at washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2020/07/garden… or wherever you get your podcasts #nativegardening #nativegarden (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCy2pFcAQrZ/?igshid=1pmg7dzhys5qb

[colwynn-design]

It is the first week of summer and also National Pollinator Week. What are you doing to help feed the pollinators in your home garden?⁠ 🦋⁠ Our West Coast Monarch Butterflies have experienced a sharp population decline of more than 80% in the last couple of years. Plant milkweed if you can, as it is the only plant their caterpillars can eat. A lot of the milkweed sold in big box garden centers are the tropical milkweed, try to find some of the native milkweeds instead. · · · #milkweed #gardening #nativegardening #butterfly #nature #garden #nativeplants #gardenlife #nativegarden #butterflies #milkweedseeds #gardens #pollinatorgarden #butterflys #milkweedformonarchs #flowers #pollinators #butterflylove #milkweedpods #gardener #wildlifegardening #butterfly_hdr #milkweedmandala #gardendesign #bringnaturehome #butterflywings #naturephotography #gardenlove #butterflygarden #nativegardendesign https://www.instagram.com/p/CB6MW5-nCIU/?igshid=jrw50ku3ihl6

[adventuresinnativegardening-blog]

Progress

6/4

Hey it’s June and I have been delinquent in my posts. Things have been progressing very well given the rain. Something - maybe a rabbit - came along and decapitated my tomato plant so I bought a new one. This new one is a Brandywine variety. 

My blueberry bushes are getting - you guessed it - berries. Before I can eat them they go to the birds, evidence by their absence and all the purple-hued crap on my patio. Fine by me. I got this stuff mostly for the birds anyway. 

A couple of my trees are dead, and I think they were DOA as they haven’t done anything but turned gray since I put them in the ground. Everything else is thriving, however. I need to take more pictures. 

I went to Laurel Hill Gardens and bought a bunch of native plants yesterday for the front yard, which is badly in need of some attention. I will take photos but for the front by the door I bought a clethra. By the road I planted blue star or amsonia and a muhlenbergia capillaris, or pink muhly. I can’t wait to see this one bloom. 

For the front near our overhang I planted Dutchman’s pipe, which I will train to climb over the front door. 

More backyard progress: 

It looks like a jungle. 

Other than that I’ve been pulling out more invasive plants and doing my best to not overdo it. 

In other news, I discovered I have a tulip tree and some of kind of willow in my front yard. My very sick holly bush which was ravaged by honeysuckle will probably have to go. My husband and I started turning it into firewood this weekend. In its place I’ll probably put a cranberry bush. 

And there’s some kind of mystery vine on my bank. I might have planted it and forgotten I had, or it might be honeysuckle. Everything these days is starting to look like that damn stuff. 

[adventuresinnativegardening-blog]

More to plant = More to water

We’ve hit a dry spell this week, so instead to biking right home and chilling with a delicious Dogfish Head beer, first I have to tend to the new plantings. 

Over the weekend I had guests over, and so was unable to report anything, however there is a lot to report! I’ve made my life more complicated by planting the following shrubs: cranberry bush, chokeberries, elderberry, spicebush, mock orange, clethra. There might be another I’m leaving out. Needless to say I was exhausted after all that planting, made infinitely easier by the help of my awesome husband. 

Here are some photos:

Mock orange (lazy man’s watering method: just poke some holes in a gallon jug and let her rip.)

chokeberry

And also just for fun, the gorgeous azaleas that were here long before I: 

So, more plants = more water. Lesson learned, but I’m excited to see what they end up doing. (Hopefully growing and not dying.)