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Garden Care and Tips

7 07, 2020

Mal’s Favorites: Endless Summer Hydrangea

2021-04-06T19:09:47-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Garden Video, Hydrangea|Tags: |

A lifelong gardener, Mal has been collecting, propagating, and growing hydrangeas for more than 40 years. An engineer by education and profession, he is strongly committed to the continuing development of the genus – always searching for new and better plants, evaluating their landscape performance, and finding superior ways to [...]

7 07, 2020

Mal’s Favorites: Vanilla Strawberry & Lime Rickey

2021-04-06T19:10:17-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Garden Video, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|Tags: , |

A lifelong gardener, Mal has been collecting, propagating, and growing hydrangeas for more than 40 years. An engineer by education and profession, he is strongly committed to the continuing development of the genus – always searching for new and better plants, evaluating their landscape performance, and finding superior ways to [...]

1 10, 2019

Hydrangea Arborescens

2021-07-05T13:11:27-04:00October 1st, 2019|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea, News and Media, News and Press|Tags: , |

The Species Has Much to Offer October 1, 2019 The summer of 2019 was open season on Hydrangea arborescens as I encountered/observed/studied the species in Cloudland Canyon State Park (Rising Fawn, Ga.); Cumberland Plateau (Sewanee, Tenn.), and the Blue Ridge Parkway from Oconaluftee (southern terminus), to 6,053 feet at [...]

10 12, 2018

Creating a Plant Community

2024-01-25T11:18:07-05:00December 10th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants|

Hybrid of Horticulture and Ecology Plants like communities too.  When we built the new parking lot at Heritage Museums & Gardens, the general concept behind the landscape was that of creating a plant community.  We chose plants that are (mostly) native to the northeast and grouped them so [...]

5 10, 2018

Fall Colors

2021-07-05T18:36:02-04:00October 5th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants|

Trees, Shrubs and Plants for Fall Color It’s not hard to notice fall is around the corner.  The air is crisp and the trees (and many other plants) are starting their annual journey into dormancy.  Along the way we are privileged to witness their spectacular show.  Of course [...]

13 08, 2018

How to be Inspired in August….

2024-03-26T10:49:41-04:00August 13th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants|

Hakone Grass (Hakonechloa macra) How to be inspired in August…. Especially this August, with its heat and humidity. Walking around the Garden (Heritage Museums & Gardens), I’m excited to see the beautiful meadows(I’ll discuss the meadows in a future article) of the Parking Garden with their spectacular show [...]

26 07, 2018

Hydrangea Paniculata: Dependable & Hardy

2024-04-11T11:10:52-04:00July 26th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea, News and Media|

Let’s Talk about Hydrangeas! For those of you that read my columns, you know that I’ve devoted the last two to several hydrangea species. Specifically Hydrangea macrophylla and Hydrangea arborescens. This week I’m going to discuss the other species that’s common on the Cape, Hydrangea paniculata, the Panicle Hydrangea. As we move through [...]

22 05, 2018

Monitoring your Propagating Plants!

2024-01-25T11:00:58-05:00May 22nd, 2018|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants|Tags: |

Monitoring your Propagating Plants! *Down to Earth is a weekly garden column in The Sandwich Enterprise written by Heritage’s Director of Horticulture, Les Lutz. For the full article with images please visit The Sandwich Enterprise here. Late last fall I discussed winter propagation of hardwood trees and shrubs. I decided [...]

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