Let’s Talk Gardening

June 23, 2007

Visit to Lavender Farm

Country Cottage Primitive

17206 Walker Rd.

Shawnee, OK 74801

405-275-3238

Lavender with Cindy Townsend: Lavender prefers good sandy loam soil with good drainage. Oyster shell helps with drainage. Lavender ‘Munsted’, Spanish Lavender, Lavender ‘Coconut Ice’.

Small Space Gardens with Linda Shackelford: Herb Garden with Mint, Thyme, Rosemary, Golden Delicious Sage and Lemon Grass. Upside down pot with sun Coleus, blue birdbath, blue pot with Hosta. Coneflower, Dicondra ‘Silver Falls’, assorted pathway plants such as ‘Miniature Rush’, thyme, wooly thyme.

Shelf plants, Ti plant, Plumbago, Lantana.

Trellis with self-watering pot (Garden Earth Box) with Mandevilla

Sunny Wall basket with moss with Lantana, Scaevola and Mexican Feather Grass

Shady moss wall basket: Impatiens, Lantana, Plumbago, Torenia, Diascia.

Shaun’s Front Yard Makeover: Pink Velour Crape Myrtle, Chinese Pistache, ‘Oklahoma’ Redbud, River Birch, Magnolia ‘Little Gem’, Sea Green Juniper, Dianthus ‘Firewitch’, Compact Nandina, Boxwood ‘Green Velvet’, Clematis ‘Niobe’, Knockout Roses Double Pink and Double Red, Euonymus ‘Moonshadow’, Canaerti Junipers, Coreopsis ‘Crème Brule’, Amur Maple, Daylily Mix, Blue Point Juniper, Goldmound Spirea, Maynight Salvia.

Ken’s Garden Tips #1: Flea and Tick Control. Turf Ranger, Sevin, Bayer Complete, Liquid Sevin, Ortho Max, Home Pest.

Marching Orders:

1. Come to Moonlight Madness at TLC this Weekend.

2. Plant the things you bought at TLC.

Question of the Week: What can I use to kill grass out of the flowerbed? Grass B Gon

Best of Show: Alice Woodrome: Bearded Iris, Shastas, Peonies.