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2024-04-11T11:14:14-04:00August 14th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, News and Media, News and Press|
Down to Earth by Les Lutz August 14, 2020 Mid-August is when ornamental grasses and many herbaceous perennials begin to shine. Beginning in late July and continuing through the fall and into winter, many of these plants are in their peak bloom. But there are many other plants [...]
2025-06-18T12:18:40-04:00July 31st, 2020|Categories: Blog, Gardens and Plants, News and Media, News and Press, Uncategorized|
Oh, So Many Choices July 31, 2020 We’re now firmly in the season of full-flowering for many herbaceous perennials that will continue through late September. Plants such as Kniphofia and hardy hibiscus are just starting to flower, as are many ornamental grasses. One group of plants that never fails [...]
2021-07-05T13:06:21-04:00July 31st, 2020|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, News and Media, News and Press|Tags: Garden tips|
Good for Plants and the Planet July 31, 2020 Dale Wall, the best landscape architect I know, states, “You want a $10 hole for a $5 plant.” At Heritage Museums & Gardens (HMG) in Sandwich, they agree. As part of their sustainability efforts, HMG produces all of its mulch [...]
2025-07-28T13:56:00-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Garden Video, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|
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 [...]
2025-07-28T13:56:01-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|Tags: Oak Leaf Hydrangea|
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 [...]
2025-07-28T13:55:58-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Garden Video, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|Tags: Lace Hydrangea|
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 [...]
2025-07-28T13:55:59-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Garden Video, Hydrangea|Tags: Endless Summer|
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 [...]
2025-07-28T13:56:38-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Garden Video, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea|Tags: Hydrangea, Mal|
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 [...]
2024-05-23T09:58:13-04:00April 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Gardens and Plants, Heritage Collection, Rhododendron|Tags: Dexter, Rhododendron|
Charles Owen Dexter got some bad news in 1921. At age 59, his doctor told him he didn’t have long to live. What would you do if you got news like that? If you were Charles Dexter, you’d buy some beautiful, rolling farmland on Cape Cod and start hybridizing [...]
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: Hydrangea, Research|
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 [...]
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