Let’s Talk Gardening

July 29, 2006

Tools for ache free gardening with April Enos: Soaker hose, Retractable hose, Hose guide, Water wand, Kneeling bench, Stanley retractable tools, Roller pots, Light weight pots, Upsy Daisy, Weed Eezy sponge applicator, Bionic Gloves, Fine Hose-on sprayer,          Pipe insulation to cushion grips of tools, Extension fruit picker.

New display Gardens at TLC with Jana Pirtle: Blue/lavender Garden with Cocoa shell mulch, Salvia, Blue Daze, Blue Penstemom, Euphorbia Diamond Frost, Nepeta, Amsonia Limonium ‘Sea Lavender’, Agastache ’Honey Bee Blue’ Verbena Bonariunsis, salvia May Night, Baptista ‘False Indigo’, Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’.

Cedar Mulch Garden; Nicotinia, Guara, Echinicea, Yarrow Achilla, Ascelpsia, Coreopsis ‘Crème Brulee’, Oenothera ‘Lemon Drop’, Solidago ‘Golden Rod’

Red Eucalyptus mulch, Agastache, Tricolor Mahoe, assorted Gaillardia, Ornamental Peppers, Asclepsis, Sweet Potato Vine, Salvia Gregeii, Knockout Roses.

Backyard Makeover with Shaun Doering: Water garden features

Marching Orders: Fertilize Containers, Dead head and prune old blooms.

Garden Question: When do you plant Crape Myrtle?  Now is a good time so you can choose the plant by the color you want.

Best of Show: Dianne Ross with her grandmother’s Phlox