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10 Tips for Creating the Most Interesting Garden
Horticulture expert Debra Knapke offers suggestions for your home’s green space.
Teresa Woodard
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.
Against a north-facing wall, beneath a deep roof overhang, under the branches of a large tree: Dry, shady spots like these are among the most challenging places for plants to grow. “It’s a double whammy,” said Julie Janoski, Plant Clinic manager at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. “There’s not much sunlight, which plants need to make their food. But there’s also a short supply of water, because .