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threegoldfish in gardening

A bit of picspam

Apr 27, 2009 21:47

My basic plant philosophy is native, edible or both. So I've been slowly removing plants I find boring and taking up space and replacing them in the house I bought a year ago. For example, the crepe myrtle I was allergic to got replaced with an American elderberry. The silver mound got replaced with blueberries. The burning bush got dug out and the ( Read more... )

fruit: blueberry, zone: usda 7, garden style: water, natives, garden style: bog, garden method: raised beds, garden porn, carnivorous plants

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mysupernova April 28 2009, 02:20:14 UTC

So neat!

angelchrome April 28 2009, 02:50:02 UTC

Very nice! I'm trying to slowly make the move to natives myself since there are really fabulous options that don't have to be coaxed through the hot summers or the heavy shade from the stupid forest out back.

I should really consider freecycling all the damn liriope in my life. The people who landscaped this mess before we got here were hot on liriope.

ursulav April 28 2009, 14:08:45 UTC

Oh god, speak not the name of the Fell Beast Liriope!

The last house I lived at was a mass of liriope, lemon balm, and gooseneck loosestrife. Moving out saved my sanity in more ways than one.

vegaenglit April 28 2009, 02:53:39 UTC

what zone are you?

threegoldfish April 28 2009, 02:54:51 UTC

7, Northern Virginia coastal plain.

vegaenglit April 28 2009, 02:57:43 UTC

ah. im zone 8 (north texas), a lot of the plants you were naming were familiar, but i couldnt figure out the bog plants.

threegoldfish April 28 2009, 03:00:53 UTC

A lot of the pitcher plants are actually native to further south of me (Carolinas and down) but with some care, they make it through winters even colder.

ursulav April 28 2009, 14:16:22 UTC

Serious kudos on the native plants! I'm a native-and-well-behaved-immigrant person myself, but everything has to earn a certain amount of ecological keep.

If you're interested in the carnivorous bog plants, let me recommend the Texas Triffid Ranch at www.txtriffidranch.com (he's got an lj at txtriffidranch) which has some very useful information on stuff like "saving those poor squashed pitcher plants that you see in the little plastic cubes at Home Depot."

threegoldfish April 28 2009, 14:20:43 UTC

Thank you! I've been enjoying your lj posts about your garden and your new reef tank. I'm a freshwater gal myself, but I love hearing about other people's tanks.

Paul's who got me into carnivores, with all of his pimping of Sarrencia Northwest. It's definitely all his fault. :D

ursulav April 28 2009, 22:02:57 UTC

Ha! Dude, small world...

trekkingkitty April 29 2009, 00:20:30 UTC

very cool, especially the bog plants.