Campion and Catchfly

LychnisLychnis alpina ( Arctic Campion )A short-lived, tufted perennial, reaching up to 9 x 8 inches in size.It looks great in the rock garden.The thick foliage is deep green.The bright to deep pink flowers are borne on heads up to 6 inches across, during late spring to early summer.Hardy zones 1 to 6 in full sun to partial shade on acidic, very well drained soil. Propagation is from seed and it often self seeds.Lychnis x arkwrightii VesuviusA compact...

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Roosevelt Elementary School Centennial Time Garden On a Rainy Olympia Kinda Day

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Getting tired

Over the past couple of years I have been finding the odd website here or there that is displaying my landscape plans as their own creations under their own landscape design advertisement page...I have personally contacted over 10 websites with the request that they remove my plans.The original work is displayed on these links...with my permission of course:Page 1Page 2Page 3Page 4It is getting kind of tiring for me to go around emailing these folks...

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Small Garden Design Blueprint For Planting A Three Season Small Space Garden

Using intensive planting techniques as well as crop rotation small garden Design can be successfully achieved. Yields are high when plants are closely spaced. By growing early, mid and late season vegetables in the same space, maximum yield is realized from minimum space.Its amazing how much you can grow in a small space if you plant intensively and continue to plant in the same space as the seasons change.The following is a basic plan for a compact,...

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Morris Elementary School Garden McKinleyville California

Signs that TeachAnother great McKinleyville asset that just needs a little love is the Morris Elementary School Garden.  There always seems to be just one parent at a time that takes the project by the reins and takes it as far as one can, which is apparently unsustainable.  Just as in school, in the school garden, there needs to be some structure and there needs to be some literature, including a design.Morris Elementary School...

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Delosperma Ice Plants

Succulent plants for full sun and very well drained soils that are typically hardy from zones 6 to 9 ( unless otherwise noted ). The Ice Plants prefer a gravel rather than organic mulch. They are excellent for gravelly rock gardens and on slopes. Very drought tolerant; they are excellent groundcovers for use in xeroscaping in the west. Many of these are also excellent for use in containers as well as trailing over a wall. Also commonly used for the...

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