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Sandras All- organic Rose Recipe
In 1990, when the Mendelow rose collection was first conceived, Sandra spent a full year laying the groundwork for her garden. Soil heavy with clay received generous amounts of calcium-rich gypsum, as well as sand to improve drainage, and compost to boost fertility. Raised beds outlined in brick further improved drainage, helped concentrate nutrients, and brought plants up to eye level. With guidance from rose consultant and hybridizer Mike Lowe, Sandra began a pruning program (every Valentine’s Day the clippers come out) that keeps the bushes in top form.
Home Landscaping Practices to Protect Water Quality
By The Virginia Cooperative Extension
In Virginia, we rely on reservoir systems, wells, and other sources for our freshwater. In recent years, our previously plentiful clean water supplies have been threatened not only by overuse, but also by contamination. Pollutants are carried down with water soaking through the soil to the water table. Runoff (water that does not soak into the ground) flows over the surface, often taking soil and polluting chemicals with it into lakes and streams.
Bringing Your Plants Indoors
As the risk of frost nears, it’s time to bring in some of the non-hardy plants so that they can overwinter indoors. But before you start digging up your plants and plunking them in pots in front of your window, follow a few easy steps to ensure that your plants make it through the winter.
Choose vigorously growing, healthy plants to bring inside.
VIRGINIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY
Look for a new annual black eyed Susan in nurseries and garden centers. Rudbeckia hirta `Indian Summer’, an All-American Selection, has single and semi-double 6-9 inch golden flowers with dark centers. Plants are three to four feet tall and will bloom all summer.
The Wild Garden: Woodland Gardens and Fall Planting
I’ve been fascinated with wildlife gardening since childhood. Rather than family shopping trips or excursions to baseball games, my father would take my brother and I out to the woods in search of wildflowers while my mother led the search for fossils at Ten-Mile Creek. So today, most of my gardening adventures are connected one way or another with the wild garden.
And if you like wildlife, there are even more reasons for establishing such a garden, not only on country homes or suburban lots, but even in the middle of a city. No matter where you live, animals, birds, and insects abound. Just come over to my place early in the morning.
NATIVE PLANTS
Native plants have recently become the answer for those gardeners who are tired of pampering fancy exotic imports with toxic chemicals. Because they grow here naturally, many natives are less labor intensive than their finicky cousins from across the sea.
WILDFLOWER GARDEN OR WEED PATCH?
Summer is definitely over and all the gardens are pretty well put to bed, the leaves are raked and even the grass is taking a break. There’s a nice sense of closure you get at the end of another gardening season. Too bad it doesn’t last very long. I’ve yet to met a gardener who isn’t planning next year’s space while raking up this year’s debris.
For several years now I have wanted a wildflower garden. I suppose this is no accident, since it’s been several years now that seed companies have been promoting their instant wildflower gardens in a can, sack or roll.
What Is A Native Plant?
Biologists have always been intrigued by questions of origin and dispersal. How and why do species arise? How do they spread from their points of origin? Are there hotspots or centers of evolution and dispersal? Thus, through the years biogeography has been a fertile field of scientific research and discourse, and the question of means of dispersal has long fueled
