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Kale salad
Ingredients Sliced kale Apple Carrots Yellow raisins Red cabbage Almond slivers Raspberry vinaigrette
Miss Bateman Clematis
Originally published 5/30/2011 Clematis are part of the Ranunculaceae family. I very much like my Miss Bateman Clematis, a deciduous perennial climber. I planted two last year in my Colorado garden and both are faring well. They have reached a height of about 3 feet and are growing vigorously. They need a better attachment to […]
Dianthus cuttings
In my garden I have 4 Dianthus gratianapolitanus ‘Cheddar Pink’ on a mound with good drainage. An herbaceous perennial with deep pink flowers float over a lovely grayish green leaves. They form nice clumps of evergreen ground cover. These incredibly spicy clove scented flowers bloom in early summer. This year I want to increase […]
Prunus americana Wild Plum
Prunus americana American Plum / Wild Plum On sale in 2021 at Tagawa Gardens – this most intoxicatingly scented spring bloomer is a hardy, woody tall shrub or flowering tree. Blooming in March, this is early food source for native bees waking up in Spring. https://tagawagardens.com/documents/2021_Nursery_Trees_Shrubs_List.pdf This year we had a large wet snowstorm on […]
A new peach – Prunus persica ‘Redhaven’
Planting Date: 3/8/2021 The nursery near me had 3 varieties of semi-dwarf peach trees. My desires are pretty general. I want a delicious peach that can reliably ripen before a frost (as early as early September) and one that is hardy. Prunus persica hails from an intermountain region of China, in the province on Nanjing. […]
The pollution soakers: Colorado natives to test
Cotoneaster franchetii plant beat all others in a Royal Horticultural Society study to determine how much car pollution a hedge formed plant removed from the air and captured within leaf materials. Leaf samples were measured for heavy metals: Zn, Cu, Pb, as well as Na. before and after being exposed to roadside traffic for 9 days without […]
Bonsai boy care instructions for juniper Nana
Bonsaiboy.com The dwarf juniper is the most popular evergreen in the united states. When we think of a traditional bonsai and what it should look like, we think of a juniper procumbens nana. it is very hardy, long lived, and tolerates many adverse conditions. Juniperous procumbens is a low growing juniper native to southern Japan. […]
Teasel
This is the weed in my garden that produced these lovelies. Sadly its an invasive species so it won’t be allowed to stay and I will need to look for these in Wayside meadows as well. Note: The following information was gathered from a web archive of the following government website. Contact your county extension […]
Give nature a blanket in winter and you’ll see habitat everywhere you look.
Dried leaves as blankets I freely admit I’m not neat or tidy, or organized. But I like beauty and that usually requires some tidiness or organization. For most suburbanites the fall tidy up means a clearing of dead leaves. But imagine if we treated our bodies the same way? Instead of putting on a warm […]