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PRESIDENT’S LETTER Ed Burke, Rocky Dale Gardens
Dear Fellow Green which plants are resilient to weather extremes inside
Works Members, and the disease and insects that result from them
is ever-changing. It can be frustrating for both this issue
Happy New Year VNLA our clients and us.
members! Though we’re Board of Directors 2
in the middle of winter, While we bite our nails over whether the Japanese
we haven’t been dormant Maples are going to die this winter, Peter Del The President’s Letter 3
at the Vermont Nursery Tredici’s article in this issue of The Dirt highlights
and Landscape the plants in our urban areas that will survive no The Buzz 4
Association. matter what the weather, (and human race) Green Works Announces
throws at them. While we face the changes that Green Mountain Habitat for
There is always a lot of work this time of year and climate change is bringing and we strive to bring Humanity Project
it coalesces around our Annual Business Meeting back and protect native ecosystems, the reality is
held during the Winter Meeting & Trade Show. With Deep Sadness
our urban areas are not the ecosystems they once
Here you’ll vote on the by-laws changes we are were. Tredici asks us to recognize the carbon 2017 Industry Award
proposing, the proposed 2018 budget, and the sequestration, temperature reduction, oxygen Winners
new slate of Board members that have agreed to production and food and habitat that these “novel Calendar of Events
serve on the VNLA board. You’ll find out who the ecosystems”, (as Tredici refers to them) create.
VNLA awards winners are as well as the Industry These ecosystems are made up of many of the Leonard’s Clippings 11
Award winners, when they present their winning common weeds and invasive plants that we
projects at the meeting. You’ll also hear about disparage today and are very adaptable to The Lab 13
the new initiative with Green Mountain Habitat extreme conditions. Observations from
for Humanity to develop a landscape plan and UVM Diagnostic Lab
installation for a charity project in Essex Though I look forward to the bloom of my tender
American Beauties Native
Junction. You’ll also notice in your Membership Redbud varieties (and will be disappointed when
Plants Creates Endowment
Directory that we’ve changed the member they don’t bloom but I hope they at least
window decals to highlight The Vermont Nursery survive!), Tredici has influenced me to look upon
The Idea Factory 16
and Landscape Association. * “weeds” and roadside ditch plants with a bit less
Garden Media Group
scorn and give them “amnesty”. In the face of
The annual business meeting gives us a chance to climate change, I find his study and conclusions a Garden Trends Report
acknowledge some great work by the board, valuable voice. While he encourages us to look 2018
Kristina and our VNLA members. We are pleased upon urban ecosystems differently, Tredici Amnesty for Plants
to host an inspiring keynote speaker, Thomas supports the efforts to restore “native”
Rainer who together with Claudia West, wrote the Ireland Landscapes,
ecosystems in non-urban areas as much as is
book, Planting in a Post Wild World. Read more reasonably possible and practical. Plants and Garden
inside this issue for the full schedule of events on Products
February 15 meeting. I heard Peter Del Tredici speak at New England
Grows this past December and was inspired to dig Strictly Business 22
While the days are getting longer, the temps deeper. His book Wild Urban Plants of The Becoming a Master at
remind us that there is plenty of winter left Northeast, A Field Guide would make a good What You Do
before we’re out in the field again. As I write winter read. And as we know, there’s plenty
New Member Profile
this, It’s been a long time since we’ve had such winter left.
prolonged below zero temps and my mind Favorite Business Book
Best to all,
wanders to the tender woody plants in my Recommendations
Ed
garden: will only the flower buds die or will the
*In 2008 we underwent rebranding when we adopted The Plant Lounge 26
whole plant die? It is going to be an interesting
the Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association as For the Love of
spring! Especially compared to last spring when
our new name (previously we were known as the Umberllifers!
after a pretty mild winter we had the best and Vermont Association of Professional Horticulturists.)
most profuse blooms on Rhododendrons and “Green Works” was developed as a “branding name” to
Classified Ads 27
many other flowering woody plants that many of use in conjunction with The Vermont Nursery and
us had ever seen. Landscape Association. The board now feels strongly
that The Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association Cover Photo: The Grass
What we can expect for temperatures and needs to take more of a center stage and “Green
Gauchos, LLC - 2017
moisture really has become a guessing game. Works” become less prominent in our logo. We are
working to implement that change throughout our Industry Award Winner -
Working with tender species is still a gamble, but
collateral. Lovett Park Project.
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THE BUZZ
the low down on what’s up!
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With Deep Sadness . . .
It is with great sadness that we share excerpts from the obituary properties. No job, large or
small was completed with
below of longtime member Steve Tworig of North Branch
any less attention and skill
Landscape Co. Back in October, at Pam Tworig’s request, we
than the other. Throughout
shared this news with our members via email. Due to the nature of
his entire working career he
Steve’s illness, Pam wanted all our members to be aware of the
was well known and
risks of what working outside can sometimes cause.
respected for his extremely
On sharing this news in October we immediately heard back from strong work ethic.
many of our members who had known and worked with Steve in
the past, as well as members who met Steve this past August, 2017 Steve was a past board
at our Summer Meeting in Dorset. We would like to share a couple member of both the VNLA
quotes with you: (previously known as the
Vermont Association of
“Steve joined the NENA board in 1996 and was president in 2001 Professional Horticulturists)
… so he was on the board for a total of 7 years. He was a great and past president of the
member and represented VT very well. He was such a kind and New England Nursery Association. He was a certified arborist by
generous person”. the International Society of Arboriculture and also held a
certification in Tree Risk Assessment. In 1997 he was the esteemed
Virgina Wood, New England Nursery
recipient of the New England Nursery Association Young Nursery
Association Executive Director
Professional of the Year award.
“So sad and sorry to hear about Steve! I sat next to him at a
summer meeting. We talked about the trials and tribulations of Steve was an avid fisherman and hunter, never happier than when
running a business. He was so funny and irreverent! I will cherish he was in the woods with his wife and son Stephen. He was
that memory”. passionate about growing things; trees from seedlings, perennials,
shitake mushrooms, the best, sweetest, and largest blueberries in
Sarah Salatino, Full Circle Gardens
the area, along with a multitude of succulent vegetables.
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his life, it did not diminish his spirit or reduce his courageous niece, Julianna Pearl Chappell Pecor, who loved her uncle (along
efforts in any way. with his blueberries). Steve also leaves a contingent of cousins
from the Anderson, Lamont, Molloy, Rinaldi and Tworig families.
Steve is survived by his wife of 31 years, Pam, whom he married Steve was predeceased by his mother, Julia Molloy Tworig;
June 14, 1986; his son Stanley Stephen Tworig IV; his dad Stanley grandparents Stanley and Bernice Tworig and James and Julia
Steven Tworig Jr.; his sister Susan Tworig Cross and her husband Molloy; mother-in-law Mary Ann Meisberger; and his cousin
Corky Cross of Adams; two brothers, Jim Tworig and his wife Michael Rinaldi.
Becky and John Tworig and Kimberly Tworig from Delaware; his
aunts Irene McHarg, Rosalie Tworig and Mary Molloy; his uncle He will always be remembered by a community of friends, former
Pat Anderson; his father-in-law Ray Meisberger; and his brother colleagues, and of course, his best friend "Cash."
and sister-in-law Andrew and Courtney Meisberger. He will be
missed by his nephews Walter and Wesley Pecor, Justyn, Conner Donations in Steve’s honor can be made to Ducks Unlimited or Pop
and Brandon Tworig, Joshua Tworig; and his nieces Shannon and Cares. You can view the entire obituary at this link: www.http://
Maggie Meisberger and Katelyn Tworig. He adored a spirited great- www.iberkshires.com/obituaries/12148/
• Keynote speaker Thomas Rainer of Phyto Studio, • Getting Down to Business Roundtable
Washington, DC • Native Plants, A Plant Grower’s Perspective
• Green Works/VNLA Business Meeting, including
w/Peter van Berkum
awards ceremony
• Pest & Disease presentation by Ann Hazelrigg,
UVM We hope to see you there!!
John Padua
991 Tyler Bridge Road, Bristol, VT 05443
phone/fax: 802-453-3889 / e-mail: cobcreek@gmavt.net
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2017 Industry Award Winners!
The Industry Awards Program is in its 9th year. We made Distinctive Landscaping – Charlie Proutt
some changes to the entry guidelines to make it even easier Charlotte, VT
for our members to participate. We eliminated all the Town Sanctuary
categories so that each entry would be judged on its own Excellence Award
merits using specific judging criteria and a scoring system.
The Grass Gauchos, LLC. – Josh Cohen
Each member business could enter up to three projects.
Burlington, VT
Lovett Park
This year we received a total of eight submissions. A panel Excellence Award
of professionals met in early January for a full day to judge
the entries. The judges included a landscape architect, AJLA - Anna Johansen, Landscape Architect
educators, professional landscape designers, and East Dorset, VT
hardscaping experts. As always, the judges remain Overlook Road Estate
anonymous. Honor Award
In addition, winners will present their winning projects at Holland’s Bloom – Edwin de Bruijn & Linda Bailey
the Annual Winter Meeting & Trade Show on February 15, Brattleboro, VT
2018. Winning projects will be featured on a upcoming Oak Street Garden
Across the Fence television show and in a Seven Days Merit Award
Newspaper insert, in April, 2018.
The Grass Gauchos, LLC. – Landon Roberts
Congratulations to the 2017 Industry Award Winners!! Burlington, VT
Bay Road
Merit Award
Participate in the
2018 Industry Awards Program.
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Distinctive 2017! – Elizabeth Proutt
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Landshapes – Caroline Dudek
Burlington Hillside Retreat
Honor Award
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
February 15, 2018 March 21-25, 2018 New England Grows
Green Works/VNLA Winter Meeting Maine Flower Show November 28 - November 30, 2018
& Trade Show Thompson’s Point Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
UVM Davis Center Portland, ME Boston, MA
Burlington, VT www.maineflowershow.com www.newenglandgrows.com
www.greenworksvermont.org
July 30 - August 3, 2018 MANTS
Perennial Plant Symposium January 9-11, 2019
February 20-21, 2018
Raleigh, NC Baltimore Convention Center
Integrated Pest Management
www.perennialplant.org Baltimore, MD
Certificate Program
www.mants.com
Vermont Technical College August 22, 2018
Randolph Center, VT Green Works/VNLA Summer March 1-3, 2019
www.vtc.edu/ag-course/integrated-pest- Meeting & Trade Show Vermont Flower Show
management-certificate Shelburne Farms Coach Barn Champlain Valley Expo
Shelburne, VT
Essex Junction, VT
March 6-9-, 2018
Philadelphia Flower Show August 28-29, 2018
Pennsylvania Convention Center Griffin Greenhouse Grower &
Philadelphia, PA Retailer Expo
www.theflowershow.com DCU Center, Worcester, MA
www.griffins.com
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LEONARD’S CLIPPINGS!
by Dr. Leonard Perry, UVM Horticulture Professor Emeritus
In UVM Plant and Soil Science news from this fall: Here’s your biannual snapshot of the PSS department focus and
student interest, as shown by courses being offered this Spring
(and faculty or lecturers teaching them, with their current
• In the past few months, Director of the Agroecology and
enrollments). As of this writing in mid-December, with the main
Livelihoods Ernesto Mendéz, has visited Brazil on two
registration done, courses include: A Bug’s Life (Izzo, 129),
occasions: the first was for the 2018 Latin American
Drawing and Painting Botanicals (Masseau, 15), Plant Pathology
Scientific Society of Agroecology) Meeting and the
(Delaney, 13), Greenhouse Operations (White, 11), Commercial
second to present a keynote address at the 8th Annual
Plant Propagation (Starrett, 32), Permaculture (Izzo, 40), Soil
Agroecology Congress of the State of Santa Catarina.
Fertility and Conservation (Gorres, 31), Crop Innovation and
• Tucker Andrew, an MS candidate in Deb Neher's Soil
Breeding (Bishop Von Wettberg, 12), Small Farm Planning
Biological Indicators Laboratory (SEBIL), gave a talk at
(Bradshaw, 22), Biological Control (Chen, 10), Ecological
the Soil Metagenomics Conference, in IL this fall on
Landscape Design (White, 18), Soil/Water Pollution/
"Linkages between bedded pack and healthy and
Bioremediation (Faulkner, 17), Professional Development
mastitic cow udder microbiomes".
(Neher, 24), Ecological Foundations of Agriculture--online (Izzo,
• In early November, PSS hosted a screening of a new
9). Delaney is from Plant Biology, and Wettberg is the faculty
documentary. The Last Crop is an intimate exploration
member who began this fall. Of the above, lecturers hired for
into the lives of small family farmers in California’s
these courses (not full time faculty) include Izzo, Masseau,
Central Valley. It is an exploration into who grows what
White, and myself.
we eat and what it takes to be a farmer.
• In late October, 120 persons turned out to learn the
One of my main projects in retirement is continued teaching of
newest information about bees from Dr. Dewey Caron
my online courses for PSS which include for this Spring:
from U Delaware, hosted by the UVM Beekeepers and
Pollinators and Perennials—winter session (22), Home Hops
PSS.
Growing (25), Home Vegetable Growing (77), Indoor Plants (13),
• PSS continues its seminar series, with one speaker this
Garden Flowers (13), Flowers and Foliage (11), Perennial Garden
fall being Laura Lengnick on the topic of 'Cultivating
Design (24). These plus my continued press articles (online and
Food Systems for a Changing Climate'. Check out her
sent to media, available for your use too in newsletters), tapings
work here: https://cultivatingresilience.com/about-
for Across the Fence, and a few consulting gigs seem to allow me
laura-lengnick/
even less time to get hands-on with flowers. On the consulting,
• The Certificate of Graduate Study in Agroecology
it has been a pleasure to continue working with your strong
(CGSA) is a 5-course, 15-credit low-residential program
association of such great members and leaders, and I look
developed and delivered by UVM’s Agroecology and
forward to this again in 2018.
Livelihoods Collaborative (ALC) in the Department of
Plant and Soil Science (PSS). Led by agroecologist and
professor Ernesto Méndez (faculty in the PSS
Department and the Environmental Program), the ALC
brings a unique vision to agroecology as a
transdisciplinary, participatory and action-oriented
approach.
• UVM now has a beekeepers club, advised by Mark
Starrett, and with an apiary and pollinator-friendly
garden which “sprouted up this August in the lush space
between the Catholic Center and University Heights
South.” In just a little over year in existence, it has been
recognized by the Student Government Association and
now has hundreds of members. “UVM has been certified
as the first Bee Campus in New England and the 17th in
the U.S.”
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THE LAB
putting it under the lens . . .
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American Beauties Native Plants ® Creates
Endowment for Native Plant Research and More!
by Peggy Anne Montgomery
American Beauties Continues its Partnership: $12,000 since 2015.
Tradition of Giving. Since the National Audubon Society: $1000
donation in 2018. University of
inception of American Beauties Native
Delaware: $3500 donated in 2018 to Dr.
Plants in 2006, the brand has looked to
Douglas Tallamy for research on native
fund causes that promote native plants
plants and pollinators.
in the landscape. Environmental
research and education are at the very To learn more about American Beauties
core of our mission. Through the effort Native Plants and more ways American
and support of our grower network, Beauties gives visit:
Carolina Native Nursery, Civano www.abnativeplants.com.
Nursery, Midwest Groundcovers, Prides
Steve Castorani (L) of North Creek Nurseries and
Corner Farms, Willoway Nurseries, and
Mark and Lisa Sellew (R) of Prides Corner Farms,
our online retailer, Garden Crossings we owners of the American Beauties Native Plants
have made great strides toward realizing brand, hold the plaque commemorating the founding
this mission through the selling of of the American Beauties Native Plant Research
Endowment. “I am honored that American Beauties
regionally important native plants to is creating a research fund focused on the vital role
independent garden centers and to of native plants. The American Beauties community
landscapers in each grower’s selling cares about making a difference and making our
world a greener place.” – Mark Sellew, co-owner of
area. American Beauties Native Plants and owner of
Prides Corner Farms, Lebanon, CT
To further their research and education mission, American
Beauties has created a $25,000 endowment to fund native plant
research at the Horticultural Research Institute (HRI). HRI is
the research affiliate of AmericanHort, the national Three Things to know about Van Berkum Nursery
1) We are passionate about what we grow, from New England
organization supported by growers, retailers and landscapers
Woodlanders to Wicked Ruggeds.
across the country whose mission is to promote and advance 2) We specialize in healthy NH grown perennials, personal service,
the green industry in America. The creation of the American and extensive plant knowledge.
Beauties Native Plants endowment fund occurred at the 3) We have friends in low places. (ribbit).
Horticultural Research Institute (HRI) reception at the 2018
MANTS trade show in Baltimore, with a $5000 commitment
over 5 years to fully fund the endowment.
www.vanberkumnursery.com
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THE IDEA FACTORY
tips & trends, food for thought…
Garden Media Group Being surrounded by air purifying plants, finding a quiet place
to meditate or eating a plant-based diet are all reflections of
Garden Trends wellness trends that have become status symbols for people
Report - 2018 who make health a priority.
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Amnesty for Plants
by Peter Del Tredici
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that can be documented as growing spontaneously in North
America prior to 1800 should be considered a naturalized
earn your
“American archaeophyte” with all the rights and privileges associate degree:
associated with being native. This date provides a convenient
marker for the establishment of an independent US economy Landscape
and the beginning of its industrialization. Plants introduced
after 1800, including many ornamental species from Europe and Design &
Asia, should be classified as neophytes, to which the standard Sustainable
definition of non-native species applies. If such a neophyte can
be shown to spread aggressively into minimally managed Horticulture
habitats, then it should be considered an invasive species.
ENROLLING
While this discussion of nativity may see arcane to many NOW!
people, it is a way of acknowledging that globalization,
urbanization and climate change have permanently reshuffled
the world’s ecology. Scientists refer to the cosmopolitan
assemblages of species that occupy human-disturbed habitats as
“novel ecosystems” and estimate that they occupy roughly a
third of the earth’s land mass. Novel ecosystems are
widespread, biologically diverse, and capable of providing many
of the “ecological services” provided by native ecosystems. The
failure to recognize the value of these ecosystems or to
condemn them because they were not here when the Pilgrims
landed, is to deny the reality of what Americans have been doing
to the continent since they first arrived in the 1600s.
Globalization has created a world in which the classic
dichotomy that separates native from non-native species has Small College. Big Outcomes. | vtc.edu/landscape-design
lost its relevance. This is particularly true in cities where
people, plants and animals from around the world have come
together to create a unique metropolitan ecology. Using the
designation “American archaeophyte” to describe non-native
plants that have been in North America for over two hundred
years is a symbolic gesture that acknowledges the reality of an
environment irrevocably altered by humans. In a globalized
world, the boundaries that separate countries are being
breached not only by humans looking for a better life, but also
by plants and animals seeking new opportunities in a rapidly
changing world.
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Ireland Landscapes, Plants, and Garden Products
Dr. Leonard Perry, UVM Horticulture Professor Emeritus
This fall I had the chance to visit Ireland, where I was able
to spend a couple weeks with my wife and UK friends. The
focus was mostly on the sights and flavors of Ireland (if you
plan to visit and want to learn more on the awesome
Guinness experience and tour, or Irish whiskies, just let me
know), and tracing my wife’s roots (we didn’t find the end of
the rainbow but she did strike gold with her genealogy).
While not a garden trip (not really the time of year for such,
many gardens focus on early summer bloom such as
rhododendrons), I did manage to find a very unique Celtic
themed garden in county Galway—Brigit’s Garden
(www.brigitsgarden.ie).
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but I saw very few repellents; almost no slug repellents for a tunnel veggies and products (such as jams) his wife made
huge problem in their damp country; and no bulb fertilizer from their garden, and the grounds were like a small
in the height of bulb planting season (a problem finding arboretum. One plant in particular that was spectacular on
such in the UK too I understand from our friends there). a trellis against a white stone wall was the red-leaved grape
But they did have lots of bulbs, often huge sacks with (Vitis vinifera ‘Purpurea’). This is often listed to USDA zone
hundreds of daffodils for mass plantings. Plants were 5 (safer probably zone 6), and has some red in the leaves
interesting—many different through the season,
cultivars of course, lots of darkening through the
heathers for fall sales in 4- summer to a rich maroon in
and 6-inch pots sprayed the fall with purple grapes
various colors or with glitter, (sweet flesh, sour skins). It
and many different cultivars is more seen in the UK,
and even colors (such as dark winning the RHS Award of
maroon) of mophead Garden Merit, and may be
hydrangeas. seen from sources there as
the Claret or Teinturier
South of Dublin, in county
grape. Imagine this
Wicklow, Avoca Garden
interplanted with the gold-
Center carried plants we
leaved hops and a yellow-
might see in zones 4 through
flowered clematis.
9—camellias, azaleas, palms
and bamboo to perennials and
While the Irish speak
peonies—really most any
English, all signs and many
plant you might imagine, and
documents are both in Irish
enough to make me want to
(Gaelic) and English, and in
live and garden there. Keep in
Above: A rainbow of potted heathers for Fall sales, Ireland. most of Galway all signs are
mind this relatively small Below: Red-leaved grape, Vitis vinifera ‘Purpurea’ (country Tipperary, strictly in Gaelic. I also
island country (to drive across Ireland).
found Ireland a country of
it takes the same time as
very friendly people; good
driving from Burlington to
drivers; easy to get around
Concord, NH) is quite
on the motorways, not so
tempered by the ocean and
easy to drive (on the left) on
Gulf Stream. So, even though
rural one-lane roads and
Dublin is about the same
two-lane roads that are the
latitude (lat. 54) as upper
size of many of our one lane
Quebec and lower Hudson’s
roads. It is a country of
Bay, it is quite mild (our
surprisingly varied natural
USDA zone 9a), without the
landscapes. Picture the
heat we find in our
seacoast of Maine with the
subtropical zone. So you’ll
Rocky Mountains in the
find perennials there you
background, with the
that don’t grow in our
appearance of Kansas wheat
warmest zones in central and
fields in the foreground, and
south Florida. In fact, the
you have the Connemara
daily temperature often
peninsula of Galway. Then there are the scenic cliffs of
varies by only about 10 degrees (F).
Moher in the west on the ocean, the rolling green hills of
Tipperary in the middle, and the dramatic Wicklow
If you do get to go abroad and want a great place to stay in
mountains (think England’s Yorkshire moors) an hour south
the central area, I can recommend the Kilmaneen
of Dublin in the east. This country is well worth a visit if
farmhouse B&B we used in country Tipperary. Run by a
you haven’t been and get a chance.
very hospitable and friendly couple, he was both a farmer
and horticulturist. Breakfasts featured fruits and high
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New Member Profile: Good To Grow - Piquette DiPiazza
We asked new member Piquette DiPiazza of Good to Grow to I enrolled in the UVM Extension Master Gardener course in the
introduce herself via a member questionnaire we sent to her. winter of 2008 and that summer dug in, and Good to Grow was
Please meet Piquette below and we welcome her! born. Since then my business has grown to over 30 residential
and commercial clients and I have expanded our services to
My name is Piquette DiPiazza, and I am the Owner/Operator include larger scale projects such as new landscape
of Good to Grow, a full service gardening company based in installation, tree planting, vegetable garden construction and
Stowe, Vermont. other garden carpentry projects.
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THE PLANT LOUNGE
wiry stems, hairy leaves and bodacious blooms. . .
While on a trip to England this past summer, my smoldering design potential. Growing to 5’ tall, the biennial Angelica gigas
has deep wine red flowers that unfurl in a striking manner.
love of umbellifers exploded into flames when I stepped into
Astrantia is more of a typical mounding perennial with small,
the white garden at Sissinghurst. Their gardeners are
long blooming umbel flowers. The variety ‘Hadspen Blood’ is
masterful manipulators of emotions, and a walk through the
an unusual garnet red color, though the range of flower colors
grounds felt like time travel to a magical dimension. The plant
with different cultivars
with the most power for
includes white, various
me in the White Garden
shades of pink, to deep
was a lowly annual that
red. Eryngium is a diverse
grew to an outrageous 5’
genus but all members
in the fertile Sissinghurst
have a distinctive, stiff,
soils and the damp, mild
prickly upright form that
English climate.
can look sculptural in the
Billowing, light, somewhat
garden. Flower color
transparent, and
ranges from metallic blue
haphazardly scattered,
to slivery grey to white
Ammi majus offered a
depending on the species.
powerful, emotional
Eryngium yuccifolium or
contrast to the dark green
Rattlesnake Master is a
yew hedges and 10’ high
North American native
brick walls. I once grew it
with understated, white,
as a cut flower, but it lived
ball shaped flowers. Its
in strict rows, out shown
strappy, spiny foliage and
by zinnias. Seeing it used
thistle like flowers make a
with strong effect and grown to perfection inspired me to not
strong architectural statement in plantings.
only see if I could improve on my last attempt, but to also
commit to using more beguiling members of the Umbelliferae
Many plants in the parsley family are a host and food source for
(Apiaceae) family.
the Black Swallowtail butterfly, serving an important
ecosystem function in the garden. One caution for gardeners is
Commonly called the celery or parsley family, you can often
that certain plants like Parsnip, Ammi, and Hogweed contain
recognize members by the umbrella like flowers-think Queen
chemical compounds in their leaves that make the skin very
Ann’s Lace. Many of the most commonly recognized members
sensitive to sunlight. Beware about exposing skin to bruised
of the family are herbs, such as dill, lovage, and parsley. I have
leaves and stems.
always loved growing parsley, not only for eating, but for its
deep green, tightly curled leaves that fill in the front of beds
beautifully. The acid yellow flowers and blue-green ferny
foliage of dill are a beautiful garden accent, and with its
propensity for self-sowing, contributes a spontaneity to garden
beds. Fennel, both bulb and the green and bronze leaf forms,
are stunning garden plants with beautiful foliage and form.
The white, bulbous stems of the bulb fennel are ghostly when
slipped into plantings, and rain drops cling to the leaves for
those that notice the quieter details of a garden.
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