Let’s Talk Gardening

May 31, 2008

 

Ornamental Trees and Japanese Maples with Martin Borrego:  Japanese Maple ‘Toyoma Nishiki’, Japanese Maple ‘Seiryu’, Bald Cypress ‘Peve Minaret’, Horsechestnut ‘Autumn Splender’, Fir ‘Nordman’, Japanese Maple ‘Red Dragon Weeping’, Mimosa ‘Summer Chocolate’, Bald Cypress  ‘Cascade Falls’ Weeping, Japanese Maple ‘Coral Bark Songokoko’, Japanese Maple ‘Orangeola’ Weeping, Japanese Maple ‘Peaches and Cream’, Japanese Maple ‘Bloodgood’, Japanese Maple ‘Fireglow’, Japanese Maple ‘Sharps Pygmy’, Dogwood ‘Pagoda Variegated’, Rhododendron ‘Anah Kruschke’, Japanese Maple ‘Spring De Light’ Weeping.

Cool Plants for the Shade with Cindy Townsend:  Ajuga ‘Chocolate Chip’, Lily of the Valley, AchilliaAnthea’, Lamium ‘Orchid Frost’, Geranium ‘Rozanne’, Columnar Cephalatexus ‘Plum Yew’, Arboritae ‘Whipcord’,  dwarf Bamboo ‘White Striped’, Tradesczatia (Spiderwort), Lysimachia ‘Firecracker’, Lysimachia ‘Golden Alexander’, Polygonztum ‘Variegated Solomon’s Seal’, Euphorbia ‘Helena’s Blush’, Japanese Holly Fern, Japanese Painted Fern’Pewter Lace’, Lady Fern, Astilbe ‘Color Flash’, Astilbe ‘Final’, Heuchererella ‘Alabama Sun’, Imperata ‘ Japanese Blood Grass’, Carex Variegated, Veronica ‘Goldwell’, Heuchera ‘Georgia Peach’, Ligularia (Leopard Plant”, Campanula ‘Sarastro

Hosta ‘Francis Williams’, ‘Sum and Substance’, MiniPenny, Cryptoneria ‘Japonica ‘jindai”, Dogwood ‘Pagoda’, Cryptomeria Japonica ‘Black Dragon’, Hydrangia ‘Sun Goddess’.

Ken’s Garden Tips:  Summer Tree Watering:  Ross Deep Root Feeder, Tree Gator, Soaker Ring, new Tree Spikes.

Plant Pick of the Week:  Coreopsis

Garden Tour with Shaun Doering: Bronze leaf Begonias, Caladiums, Boxwood, Holly, Hardy Palms, Variegated Yuccas, Boxwood, Angelwing begonias, Fatsia Japonica  Nichol Hills Garden Tour, June 7, TLC has tickets available.

Marching Orders:  Garden Tour for Connoisseurs, Oklahoma Horticulture Society.  TLC has tickets for sale.

Best of Show:  Dave Edwards’ Large patio pot by the pool.  Fan palm, Sabal ‘Minor’