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Paul's Notes: 

Quiet week at wnep. We are repeating a segment I did in Lewisberg last year. It's on an amazing community garden.

Double Scoop Bubblegum is just one of the new coneflowers we have in stock.
                                           We have been very busy 
landscaping this week. We are starting to create a new shade garden and, on the other extreme, a rock garden/scree garden in full sun. To create the drainage necessary for the rock garden plants  to thrive we blend our own soils  and incorporate a lot of grit (stone chips)   Drainage (porosity) is so important.


GARDEN CENTER
Hemerocallis 'Apache Wardance' is a stunning blend of orange and red.





Hydrangea 'Endless Summer' and 'Blushing Bride' are in flower.


Create a bee and butterfly garden to attract pollinators. We have many of their favorite perennials in stock including allium, agastache, asclepsia or butterfly weed, yarrow, coneflowers, coreopsis, gaillarda, goldenrod, hellenium, hosta, lavender, liatris, mint, nepeta, salvia,
Thuja "Fairylights' is one of the new evergreens we have. This is only two foot wide.
 sedum, shasta daisies, thyme, and monarda. In shrubs, some favorites include spirea, lilacs, buttonbush, and buddleia or butterfly bush, clethra and sweetspire or itea.












   


SUSAN'S GARDEN
Heuchera 'Sweet Tea' will add a splash of color to any garden.




My cottage style of gardening can easily look overgrown, so its essential to keep up on the pruning and trimming back. Geranium striatum and sanguinium soften bed edges when in bloom, but begin to look straggly. I usually prune them right back to the ground but some clumps I sheared off about 6" to see if they reshoot faster. Thyme is growing into several patches of hens-and-chicks, so I have to cut that back. Its difficult to remove once it sets roots. Once thyme covers stone, you can cut it whatever shape you like since it lifts up like a piece of fabric. 
Viburnum' Summer Snowflake' has a dusting of white flowers throughout the summer.
 
 I've removed the flowering stems of the coral bells and tradescantia has been cut back very hard and dug out. Its one of those plants that I don't feel look good enough when not in flower, to warrant the space they take up, though they have been known to detect low levels of radiation by changing the color of their stamens. I've replanted it, just in case, in one of the woodland beds that I don't see every day. Another plant to get the boot, is aconitum. Sure, it beautiful back in the beginning of June, and it has 
Astilbes fluffy flower heads add color to the shade or moist sumnny garden.
interesting seed pods, but in July when its flopping over everything else in the bed, June seems like a long time ago. Yes, my heart is fickle when it comes to plants. Flowers are nice but you better behave yourself or at least have really pretty leaves.
 


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Sincerely,

Paul Epsom

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