Today’s podcast is all about horticultural holiday traditions
Month: December 2017
Raised Beds Around Trees—A Good Idea??
Recently, I received an update from a favorite how-to site, which included directions for building a raised bed around a tree. This unfortunate practice leads to many dead trees, often years down the road when the tree owner no longer mentally connects the tree dying with the creation of the raised bed. Case in point,…
Crosnes—The Tubers That Look Like Beetle Larvae!
Master Gardener Glen brought me some crosnes, which he grows and harvests. What are crosnes and why would anyone eat them? The crosne, pronounced “crone” or “crow-sn” is a member of the mint family, Stachys affinis, and produces these neat little segmented tubers resembling beetle larvae. Crosnes are native to China and Japan but take…
Witchhazel
What is your favorite late fall flowering tree? Or what is your favorite mid-winter flowering shrub? If you didn’t think common witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana) let me introduce the two of you. Witchhazel (sometimes seen as witch hazel) is a small tree or large shrub that can be either multi stem or single trunk reaching between…