6 Bulletproof (and Beautiful) Native Shrubs

'Aphrodite' Sweetshrub "Mt. Airy” Fothergilla Pronounced ‘father gil a’, this is a slow to medium growing shrub that gets 5-6’ tall.  It produces fragrant, white, bottlebrush-shaped flowers in early spring and the leaves turn brilliant…
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Help! I have brown spots on my leaves!

I normally shy away from these topics because, well, people can be a little touchy about spraying things.  But I had a few lovely ladies come by last year and request it, so here we go. How about we call it spritz?  We shall flit and spritz…
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9 Great Plants for Privacy Screens in Asheville

Got some hippies next door in the hot tub smoking left handers?  Once you are toweled off and back at your house, consider some of these excellent plants for keeping the dirty business out of sight.  Here are 9 great plants for creating…
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All About Butterfly Bushes

Butterfly bushes are one of those plants that straddle the line between a shrub and a perennial.  They are very fast growing in the right conditions, and bloom on new growth that season.  That means that they can be cut back almost to…
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Creating and Amending Perennial Beds

For years I felt that it was my obligation to do as much as I could to use the native heavy clay that I was cursed blessed with on my little piece of land in Weaverville.  Primarily this meant to mulch with as much organic matter as possible,…
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Make Free Plants This January!

If you are looking for something to try in the garden this winter, it's a great time of year for hardwood cuttings. The plants that do well as hardwoods makes a fairly short list, and success for most plants isn’t as high as doing softwoods…
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