Design Hacks: Thinking about Refreshing Your Landscape? Consider Reuse of Some of What You Have
Typical landscape refresh is a rip out and replace thing, which can be wasteful. To be honest, some stuff like Taxus badly sheared for...
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Barbara Bour
May 18, 20201 min read
Lawn Hacks: Whats Wrong with My Lawn?
All lawns, including chemical free, require some TLC. Top photo, lawn is overwhelmed with weeds and bare spots. This can be result of...
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Barbara Bour
May 6, 20201 min read
Plant Hacks: Native Camassia and Bush Honeysuckle
Under utilized native spring bulb Camassia and small native shrub Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla Rivularis 'Kodak')
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Barbara Bour
Apr 29, 20201 min read
Most Yard Waste is Not Waste At All, It's an Asset
A of what we do to maintain our yards costs a lot of time and money and is not so great from environmental and habitat standpoint....
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Barbara Bour
Apr 28, 20201 min read
Bring Joy to Your Garden with Natives
Bring joy to your garden, birds, bugs and pretty much everything else with rich variety of native perennials, shrubs and trees. A list of...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Care Hacks: All of that Blowing is Not Just Annoying & Polluting, It Depletes Soil and Harms Habitat
Pale color and moss or signs of nutrient deficient soil. Blowing off plant debris and leaves removes source of nutrition and support for...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Plant Hacks: Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica), Native Small Shrub
An unfussy, subtile native for sun or part shade.
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Plant Hacks: Giant Native Weed
Experimented with Cup Flower (Silphium perfoliatum), a native sun flower. This informal perennial generated a lot of interest by...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Design Hacks: Native Perennial Late Season
Cone Flower (Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'), native Stonecrop (Sedum acre ‘Autumn Joy’), native Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum), native...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Design Hacks: Sunny Perennial Border, Mid Summer
Perennial borders (especially if mixed with shrubs) provide full season interest and benefit insects, birds and animals Threadleaf...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Design Hacks: Use Shrubs as Stable Design Anchors & Background for Ephemeral Perennials
A variety of shrubs provide full season interest and structure. I think of them as steady anchors for ephemeral perennials. Variety of...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Design Hacks: The Value of an Understory
One of the most effective ways to reduce maintenance and improve appearance is cover soil with plants. Understory plants can out compete...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Design Hacks: Forget all that Mulch, Build Wild Natives Understory
Took advantage of volunteer natives to build an understory (living mulch) under shrubs & trees to compete with non-native Lamium. Heart...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Plant Hacks: Native Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Cardinal Flower with other natives, Inkberry and Cone Flower
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Plant Hacks: Late Blooming Native Cumberland Azalia
Cumberland Azalia, (Rhododendron cumberlandense), native to wooded slopes in the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Plant Hacks: May Bloom - Native Spring Bulb, Camassia leichtlinii
According to Missouri Botanical Garden site, the genus Camassia name is derived from the Native American Indian name of kamas or quamash...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Plant Hacks: Native Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla rivularis Kodiak® Red)
Small native shrub best in part shade
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Plant Hacks: Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
Giant tough native perennial. Late summer bloom
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Garden Hacks: Put Your Leaves to Work
Our towns are spending a fortune hauling leaves. The trucks and blowers are generating carbon and pollution. Put your leaves to work, mow...
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Barbara Bour
Jan 19, 20201 min read
Design Hacks: September Interest - Lots of Bloom and Habitat
Perpetual bloom is always interesting and provides important benefits to birds and insects Shrubs provide structural, full season...
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