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In The Garden Of Good Living - May 2010 - Time To Get Busy Gardening
by Pat Hendrickson
This article is by Dana Kester-McCabe. Pat Hendrickson is on hiatus this month.by Pat Hendrickson
No more excuses. It’s time to get outside and get the yard and garden ship shape. There’s all those cool garden projects I‘ve been daydreaming about since the holidays. I have to quit procrastinating. Taking a picture of a flower is not the same as planting one!
I am so inspired by the flowers I see blooming in my travels around Delmarva. Right now irises are in full display mode. They come in lots of varieties but I especially love to see those that grow wild along the edges of ponds and ditch banks.
And, speaking of wildflowers, there are plenty to see this time of year. Roadside meadow plantings really look great. I know - they’re not really wild - just wild looking. But they are pretty as are these wild phlox growing along the Pocomoke River. The other day, on Taylor’s Island in Dorchester County I saw these lovely late season naturalized daffodils. Then there are the dune flowers, stark yet cheery. And of course there is the lawn owner’s nemesis, but my friend, the dandelion.
Most counties have ordinances against just giving up mowing and letting our yards go altogether wild. But planting low growing native ground covers reduces the amount of lawn that needs to be mowed. It saves water and is one more thing homeowners can do to reduce pollution in our water ways.
I’ve said it before but it bears repeating. I love all the little flowering weeds growing in my yard. They are my contribution to the native plants movement. And speaking of that, this month there are native plant sales all over the Shore which benefit local environmental groups. They will have some though not all the wild flowers I mentioned here and actually many more.
Guess I better get me to one of those sales or dandelions will be the only flowers I get to enjoy in my own yard this year!
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