Celebrate our Public Gardens
Friday, May 7th
is National Public Gardens Day — sponsored by the Rain Bird Corporation and the
American Public Gardens Association (APGA).
Last year, more than 500 gardens
and arboreta celebrated the event. The spokesman for National Public Gardens
Day is Paul James – perhaps America’s best-known gardener and my guest on this
week’s show.
In 1995, Paul
created “Gardening by the Yard,” a weekly program that airs on the Home and
Garden Television (HGTV) network. Much of the show is shot at his real-life
home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (To find a
public garden near you, click here.)
Congratulations…
to those
gardeners among nearly 200 entrants whose names were plucked from the floppy
garden hat to receive a baby Arisaema fargesii tuber. They’ve all been mailed. Let me
know how they do.
Itch Needs
Scratching
Weeds can be a terrible problem, as can any plant in the wrong place.
Invasive plants are weeds run amuck. These plants cost billions of dollars
every year in losses to agriculture and forestry, not to mention damage to the
wild places where invasives push out the native flora. The worst thing is that
I still see some of the most problematic plants offered for sale at garden
centers and nurseries, for example Vinca minor, Houttoynia cordata ‘Chameleon’ or Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum' (variegated goutweed, above, another pretty plant, which once planted, could spread everywhere and be impossible to eradicate). Have you seen a
monster for sale? Please share your thug-sighting-stories – I’ll put some on
the air. kendruserealdirt@yahoo.com
Click on the small black arrow at the left on the bar below to start
listening,
or click on the MP3 link to download the show into Windows
Media Player or iTunes:
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Wow, this plant is new to me so I will be on the lookout for it. My wife planted Mint to keep mice away and now the plant is everywhere. You really have to be careful with invasive plants
I recently bought a house and found that the perennials are infested with gout weed. I went to work tearing it out and then a day later found I had a rash all over my arms. It turns out that it can cause skin irritation for some people. So not only is it invasive but now I’m going to have to suit up to get rid of it.