Work Less Hacks: Less Fall Cleanup = Winter Interest
Leave your leaves, seed pods and pretty much everything else. Birds, bugs, bees, and pretty much everything else that depends on your...
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Barbara Bour
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
Plant Hacks: Native Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
Cardinal Flower with other natives, Inkberry and Cone Flower
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Barbara Bour
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
Plant Hacks: Native Bush Honeysuckle (Diervilla rivularis Kodiak® Red)
Small native shrub best in part shade
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Barbara Bour
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min
Plant Hacks: Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
Giant tough native perennial. Late summer bloom
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Barbara Bour
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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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Barbara Bour
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min
Plant Hacks: Encouraging Wild Native Natives in Garden
Heart Shaped Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium) found it's way into a shady area in my under large shrubs. I let it go.
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Barbara Bour
- Jan 16, 2020
- 1 min
Design Hacks: Shade is an Opportunity
For anyone who ever thought they had too much shade...Ghost Fern (Athyrium 'Ghost'), Corelbells (Heuchera ‘Carmel’), Ladies Mantle...
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Barbara Bour
- Jan 16, 2020
- 1 min
Design Hacks: Bees Need Bloom, Birds Need Habitat
In 2019 there was the news about 30% decline in bird populations, then our hives where raided by someone's hungry bees early fall. It'...
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