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Month: October 2015

Deptford Pink Dianthus armeria

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  The rain has brought three self-sowing annuals back to my yard, plants that I haven’t seen in a number of years. The seeds have apparently been lying dormant just waiting for appropriate conditions to germinate. The one that has benefited most from the overly moist conditions in a little pink wildflower that has made […]

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Indian Pipes Monotropa uniflora

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  “Tis whiter than an Indian pipe,”    Emily Dickinson One of our more unusual perennial wildflowers appeared in the woods just beyond my yard this month. I noticed it while trundling one of an infinite number of loads of weeds to the customary dumping area. Indian pipes, corpse plant or ghost plant, despite its […]

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Aster Yellows in Coneflowers

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‘Green Envy’ is a cone flower that is bred to have a green color, however, if your pink coneflowers start to turn green do not gleefully suppose that you have developed a new and fascinating cultivar. Coneflowers are susceptible to a disease called aster yellows. Caused by an organism called a  phytoplasma, aster yellows causes […]

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Echinacea purpurea ‘Green Envy’

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  The following picture is of coneflower ‘Green Envy’. It comes from Nancy’s collection and I acquired it last year at the impromptu plant swap after the viewing of the hydroponics at the Paint and Play headquarters on Scribner Avenue. It was somewhat dehydrated but I planted it and it not only survived the miserable […]

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Rodgersia pinnata ‘Hercules’

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  After many years of gardening in a single planting zone it is rare to discover a plant that is not familiar at least in the abstract. On our recent field trip I found Rodger’s flower. This is a non-native plant, which may explain the fact that its common name obviously comes from its taxonomic […]

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