Plant of the Week
The Orchid, more specifically the Moth Orchid, or the Phalaenopsis, OR, as I call it, the Trader Joe’s orchid, is a beautiful and easy plant to enjoy.
You can grow them outdoors if you live far enough down south, but I always put mine out for their summer vacation from about May to October here in zone 7A.
They like to get out of my care, and hang out with Mother Nature for a few months…
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Raffaele Di Lallo of Ohio Tropics has written and wonderful little handbook on Orchid care. You could read and in just an hour improve your skills!
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Serome Hamlin is a human scale landscaper by trade, but he creates magical little enchanted gardens for fun and also offers his skills for events! Check out Serome’s Instagram and his Facebook to find out more.
Garden of Evil
Nandina photo from Amber Malquist on Unsplash
Nandina in the garden.. I think we can do better. Nandina is an alien invasive that escapes cultivation and takes up space in our woods and forest, feeding neither bugs nor birds.
Garden of Good
Betty Lynch supplied us some wonderful information about a native, even more regionally native Camassia than the one I grow. Camassia scilloides is a southeastern US native and I will be shopping for it at Prairie Moon Nursery.
Camassia scilloides, also know as the Atlantic camassia.
I love the one I grow in my garden, Camassia leichtlinii, but that is native to the Pacific NW, and now that I know I can grow something more local, thanks to Betty and the article she found by Piedmont Master Gardener Cathy Caldwell, I will!