Kerry’s Garden

In the last 24 hours I received 4 of the 6 fruit trees I ordered for this year. These and a few multiplier onions are about the only things I am adding this year. I pretty much have everything I want to fool with up to this point. Yesterday the nectarines from Stark were on [...]

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We have some very old silver maple trees on our street. According to the arborist that came to remove several of the trees in my neighbor’s yard, about 100 years old. Now I am the last person to advocate the removal of trees just because and certainly not ones this old but a number of [...]

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These little guys are about 4-6″ tall. Their leaves look like slightly thicker blades of dark green grass that sometimes have a light colored stripe down the middle. The bulbs are whitish-yellowish, and about the size of a pea but more of a teardrop shape. You can hardly dig a shovel of soil anywhere in [...]

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The large sassafras trees are starting to bloom. The birds really enjoy the fruit, the Japanese Beetles the leaves. Personally I like the root. A little sassafras tea on a cold winter day. mmmm This iris is either Lumicite or Lumilite, I cant read the writing. Its fairly short and pretty I think. My two [...]

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My poor little apricot is always in such a hurry. This one lives in a half barrel and I do believe that next winter I am going to move it to the north side of the house to discourage such an early showing. I had meant to do that last winter but the time got [...]

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While trying to figure out exactly what the honeysuckle in yesterday’s post was I ran across this guide. If you are interested in growing trees and/or shrubs for wildlife this guide could be useful. Lots of great pictures and habitat info for a number of naturally occurring species in the US. You can view the [...]

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For the last couple of years I had just assumed that the red berries I had seen all over this time of year were choke cherries. A closer look and a browsing of the net told me differently. These are honeysuckle berries from the species Lonicera maackii if I am not mistaken. The plant can [...]

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