a forum for local gardeners to swap plants, exchange ideas, and discuss gardening techniques.
Five million, seven hundred thousand bats have succumbed to white-nose syndrome since 2006. Seven bat species are included in this number: :big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), little brown myotis, (Myotis lucifugus), tri-colored bats (Perimyotis subflavus), ), eastern small-footed myotis (Myotis leibii) ,northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis), the Indiana myotis (Myotis sodalis) and gray myotis (Myotis grisescens). […]
Saprophytic plants are not unusual in nature. These are plants that live off of dead and decaying matter. They cannot make their own food as they contain no chlorophyll and cannot photosynthesize. Most of them are found in defined locations since they have a very specific arrangement with their environment. While some such as mistletoe […]
It is important to know the difference between cultivars, hybrids and varieties for propagation as well as legal reasons. Hybrids are fairly simple and most people who deal with plants are familiar as to how they are produced. Two plants of the same species or closely related species are crossed. This is done by placing […]
How many of you think that those showy rhododendrons that bloom so gloriously in spring are just a domestic version of our state flower, the mountain laurel? It is a natural assumption as they appear to be very similar and the impulse to use the names interchangeably is understandable. While they are both members of […]
Pruning Clematis We mentioned that sweet autumn clematis blooms on new wood and should be pruned in the spring or late winter to a height of one foot above the ground. There are other rules for different species of clematis. When they are pruned and how they are pruned frequently depends on the time of […]