6 of the easiest plant to grow in Asheville, NC and Western North Carolina. These will give you flowers no matter how brown your thumb is.
Hellebore or Lenten Rose Most of us think of evergreens when we think of plants that give us landscape interest in the winter months. Evergreens are great for adding definition and structure to your landscape, but it’s fun to add some flare, and these plants will give you some of that at a time of […]
When in bloom, there is nothing like a lilac. They are wonderful plants, full of fragrant blooms in the spring and tough as nails. There are tons of varieties available, but most of us think of grama’s gangly old bush out back by the tool shed. This is called an old-fashioned lilac, and many people […]
‘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 colors in the fall. Loves full sun but will take some shade. While something nibbled the flowers of one of […]
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 amongst the roses. Brown spots on your plants […]
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 a privacy screen in the Asheville area, in no particular order. Green […]
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 the ground every year without worrying about messing with flower production. They […]
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, every year, using the no till method. […]
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 in summer, but the process is about as easy as […]
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