When To Plant Perennials
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EditorFrom the lush, green hills beyond the sparkling in-ground pool on the road to Huntsville Memorial Library near the mountain back to a source of inspiration for later flowering in the fast lane near Chase Road, gardens the 2011 Back Mountain Bloomers Garden Tour were all unique in their own way. Each garden also featured a story behind it.
Nancy Brown will be the first to tell you that find its 2 acres of property on the road to Huntsville a short distance of the Back Mountain Memorial Library was a fluke.
“We moved here in 1973,” she said. “It was after the flood and we couldn’t find a place to live.”
She said the owner of a company she and her husband worked for offered the couple the land after the 1972 Agnes Flood.
The landscape is completely different from how Brown first found it. She started planting flowers in a small 2-by-3-foot spot next to the house and it eventually bloomed into a host of shrubs and colorful perennials surrounding the home and beyond.
The Browns didn’t have a gardening master plan, either – just some ambition and free time.
“It’s a work in progress,” said Brown. “We’re constantly trying new things.”
The yard features a stone waterfall cascading from the base of a large hill. It was built three years ago by Edward’s Landscaping, one of the many landscapers the Browns have utilized over the years, with each offering a special influence on the lush respite.
She said Bucky Edwards of Huntsville Nursery once pulled a maple tree from the woods and planted it in the Browns’ yard.
“He would come over every year and check on his tree,” she said, laughing.
Though recent spring storms have damaged several pine trees on the Browns’ property, it also allowed a clearing of the view from the hill – across the way, beyond a stone wall, is a majestic view of the Back Mountain mountains.
The garden tour made Brown appreciate her work just a little more.
“It’s nice to get other people’s reactions,” she said. “They see the beauty in it when sometimes you just only see the work.”
Closer to Chase Road, Peg Yascur’s Huntsville Road property is one that proves gardening is the ultimate therapy.
Yascur’s garden filled with evening primroses and sweet peas marks a difficult time in her life. She said her husband, Leo, always had vegetable gardens growing in the yard, but once he passed away she decided to plant the flowers she’d always wanted.
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I Want To Read About » What is an easy way to start gardening?
I will return home at the end of July and would like to start some sort of gardening project in August. But I have never done any kind of gardening/landscaping. I have no idea what kind to buy and plant. I am completely clueless.
We live in Kansas were we experience all 4 seasons. It gets quite windy in our area. The front of the house is facing the south.
Best answer:
Answer by Joanne A. (August is not a good time of year to start gardening in the USA except for states such as south Florida)
You are gonna love gardening, don’t try to do it all in one year. Get to know where the sun shines the most, and where the shaded areas are. Because you will need flowers for the sun areas, and flowers for the shaded areas.
Since you are a beginner, this year start your garden with plants that you get from a garden center or nursery. They are called bedding plants and come in a six pack. Look for a little tag sticking in the six pact showing directions on how to grow the plants. If the tag is not there, ask for one or buy something else. Directions are VERY important.
Seeds are not always easy to grow. And wildflowers are the hardest so don’t be disappointed if they don’t show up.
Two good things to do for yourself is to call your local County Extension Service and ask for all the information that they have about gardening in your area. They usually have a packet/kit of things for the home gardener.
And number two would be to pick up a couple of beginner books. You really do need to know about soil, compost, mulch and etc.
To keep from over watering or not watering enough, buy a water analyzer from a nursery or garden center. Be sure to read the directions. This will be one of your best tools.
Send for some free gardening catalogs and get use to the different types of plants, colors, and when to plant. They are filled with good informtion and pictures. And they will keep you company during the long winter months. Here is a list of just a very few. There are hundreds more:
http://www.waysidegardens.com
http://www.dutchbulbs.com
http://www.jacksonandperkins.
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