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PerennialsPodcast

How to Grow: Verbascum

Listen to this podcast on how to grow Verbascum and care for this perennial flowers.   This European native wildflower is in the snapdragon family, but you'd never know from its shape and size. This plant has a flower spike that reaches 8 feet tall. It was used medicinally to treat respiratory problems, as a poultice for bruises and as a yellow plant dye. Plant breeders have created newer, more showy hybrids and call it by its botanical name, verbascum. We also know it as mullein. We often see mullein blooming in open woodlands and on...

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How to Grow: White Fringe Tree

Listen to this podcast on how to grow and care for the white fringe tree or Chionanthus in the landscape.   I love the common name of the tree Chionanthus viginicus. Old Man's Beard is a good description of the white flowers that bloom in May and June. It's one of the later leaving-out and blooming spring shrubs and trees. The fragrant flowers grow in six- to eight-inch-long clusters, covering the tree when in bloom. They seem to droop off the stems, like a white beard. It's also call the fringe tree -- not for its edginess, but for...

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FruitPodcast

How to Grow: Wild Fruit Trees

Learn how to care for your wild fruit trees to produce more fruit. Listen to podcast:   Maybe it's because of all the rain earlier this summer or maybe it's an "on" year, but I've been noticing a bummer crop of wild apples and pears. Often untended wild trees will alternate their bearing years. Producing lots of fruit one year, and few the next. This fruit quality can be marginal at best, to actually pretty good depending on the weather, insects and diseases and the variety. While harvesting from wild trees can be rewarding, you might...

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How to Grow: Wildflower Meadows

Listen to this podcast on how to care for a wildflower meadow. It takes just one look outside to know what time of year it is. The goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, and asters are blooming, so it must be late summer moving into fall. There's been a lot of attention on planting gardens for pollinating insects and butterflies. It seems like we've had a bevy of Monarchs and other butterflies this year in our garden. While creating a planted wildflower garden is a great way to help these creatures and have a beautiful garden, a simpler way to help...

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