10 Tips for Creating the Most Interesting Garden
Horticulture expert Debra Knapke offers suggestions for your home’s green space.
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A visit to Debra Knapke’s Northwest Columbus garden is always filled with valuable lessons. Just ask her former Columbus State University horticulture students now in prime green jobs throughout the region.
Jared Hughes, owner of Groovy Plants Ranch in Marengo, recalls a class with Knapke when he naively took home a patch of her prickly pear cactus for his new succulent business. He ended up finding cacti hairs all over the interior of his new truck for days after that. Charlie Richardson, the lead gardener at Highland Youth Garden in the Hilltop, remembers class field trips to Knapke’s garden that helped bring the plants’ scientific names to life.
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When you hear the words âgarden club,â what comes to mind? Do you picture a group of soft-spoken, white-haired women â Ã la Agatha Christieâs Miss Marple â who gather for meetings, sip tea out of fine China cups, and grow African violets?
That was kind of my mental image for a long time, until I finally met some garden club members. It was then that I discovered that the word âgardenâ isnât just an adjective. Itâs also a verb, and these ladies actively garden, not just in their own gardens, but also in the community.
Every garden club Iâve had the privilege to meet with has at least two main reasons for gathering. One, to share with others their love of gardening and to help each other become better growers in the process. Two, to be involved with the community in some way, whether tending gardens or helping judge horticultural contests. Sometimes this extends to restoring historic gardens and grounds. For example, the Philadelph
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Herbs support garden pollinators May 4, 2021
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It’s National Herb Week in the U.S., but garden centres in Canada can celebrate by showing consumers how herbs support their garden’s pollinators.
Herbs can be used for many reasons: culinary, teas, and beverages, medicinal, aromatherapy, dyes, ornamental, crafts, cosmetics, and toiletries, and according to the Herb Society of America, many people do not realize that herbs are of help to beneficial insects and pollinators as well.
Herbs support pollinators, especially native bees that are facing decline, and some species of butterflies including the monarch. As growers know too well, bees and butterflies are attracted to herbs typically grown for their flowers such as borage, calendula, anise hyssop, lavender, monarda, and violets.
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