Natureworks is an organic garden center, landscape design, install and maintenance mecca. We specialize in cool, hard to find plants, organic solutions for any garden need, and beautiful pottery, statuary, fountains, books and gifts. The staff is extremely knowledgable and we love to share information. We have weekly gardening walks/talks in the season and a free handout available on most garden issues. We love to grow organic food and have seeds, soil and our Incredible Edible veggie seedlings in spring. Our kids section is growing quite large as we are busy encouraging the next generation to love nature and garden! Please visit our website for educational handouts and information www.natureworksgardencenter.com
I absolutely adore the perennial mums, and just think they are so underused! I really cannot stand the annual mums you see everywhere this time of year. Just so boring to me. (But to each his/her own!) I love my Sheffield Pink (which is really peach), and I bought two at Natureworks last fall and they are budding up now.
Ah-gah-stash is the easiest. Love this plant! Too easy to grow, native in North America, self-seeds but doesn’t spread aggressively, attracts many pollinators, edible leaves, etc…
O look it’s raining honey get the umbrellas so we can protect our plants . Only one thing you need to know is good drainage and that’s it . When it pours rain for three days straight , day and night . Drainage is key. Good info though.
It's going to be challenging to think about leaving dried stalks up. I was doing that over the winter for thicker ones that might be used by hibernating bees/bugs, but it sounds like it is good to still leave them be in spring? (Normally that's when I cut them down.)
Yes, leave them up in spring, new growth will soon cover them up! Try it in at least one area next spring. I will post a photo of my elderberry stems with holes all over them-it works!
I absolutely love this time of the year in the garden. Right now, my Beautyberries are gorgeous. I also have my perennial mums blooming (just bought 2 "Sheffield Pinks" at Natureworks a week or so ago! I'll plant them tomorrow.) Monkshood is blooming, as is leadwort, and I love the yellow foliage of the dying balloon flowers. I don't dare pinch my perennial mums, since they bloom so late as it is. Nancy, I wish I could see better photos/video of your round patio. I'd love to do something similar in my backyard. I am SO beyond thrilled I discovered Natureworks this year. I also have to plant the "Lady Jane" tulips I bought there on my last trip.
I am so thrilled I discovered Natureworks for the first time this spring! I bought 3 plants of an annual I had never heard of before: Blue Tweedia. (I am a sucker for blue flowers.) I also bought the suction cup window hummingbird feeder you show in the video, but took it down when it wasn't attracting hummingbirds. It mystifies me that I see so few hummingbirds in my West Hartford garden. I grow Raspberry Wine Bee Balm in the front garden and also Gravetye Beauty clematis, 2 plants they love, but I've only seen a hummingbird on 2 different occasions. I am going to make some hummingbird sugar solution right now and try putting the feeder on the living room window in the front garden to see if I have any luck. I really enjoy your informative email newsletter. I can't wait to pay another visit soon, maybe this Friday or Saturday.
Thank you for your kind words! I hope adding the feeder back out encouraged visits to your garden. Since I added mine back, I see them daily once again. It was a slow summer for hummingbirds here this season! So happy you found us, thank you!
Just enjoyed Nancy in Margaret Roach’s virtual garden class and had no idea it was THIS Nancy I already follow. Thanks Nancy, loved your native debate characterization!
What other kinds of seeds can be scattered with them in this way? I just planted my tulips and now I have open soil for poppies and larkspur. Can I add batchelor's button?
Seeds have been scattered naturally already so go ahead! The only thing is the soil needs to be untouched afterwards, not raked or mulched or you will cover the seeds.
