Swapping Huckleberries
Himalayan Honeysuckle ( Vaccinium glauco album) Himalayan Honeysuckle ( Vaccinium glauco album) has been an attractive feature along our north-facing foundation since I planted it in 2016. You will have to take my word for it since I cannot locate a photo although I know one exists somewhere in the realm of the Internet or floating on a cloud somewhere. I did locate a photo of how it looked when it was first planted - It took a few years to fill out but it did so nicely to an attractive mound about 2 feet high by 3 feet wide. Last year, it started to look bad. I cut it back but it had not improved and this is how it looked a few weeks ago - I decided to rip it out and plant another huckleberry - this time Vaccinium ovatum , more commonly known as the "Evergreen Huckleberry". This is a plant that I've wanted for ages and kept putting off getting one because I could not find a good place for it. By most accounts, this is an amazing plant, a native one and excellent for
Wow! Wow! That is quite the garden!
ReplyDeleteHow original, this would especially be useful for folks living in urban areas with small lots.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great garden! I love gardens that recycle and show new ways of using things. I use cat litter boxes when i make chicken poo tea for my garden. They work perfect!
ReplyDeleteHow fun to visit a blogger's garden, and so near you too, Phillip! Lots of good ideas here, love the trellises and that compost contraption is to die for!
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What a great idea for recycling those buckets. That is some kind of compost outfit. The auger to stir the compost is quite the contraption. I will have the Beatles song "hey Jude" in my head all day now. What a beautiful dog.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Phillip. Jeff has some great ideas. I will follow your link and visit his site. I'm sure I can learn a lot, especially about trellising. Cherokee Purples are my favorite too, really great taste and an unusual color.
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Phillip,
ReplyDeleteHello! I stopped by to see your photos of Jeff's Engineered Garden. You have some nice garden posts too. I'll be back. Have a good week.
I enjoyed your tour of Jeff's garden. Some very good ideas.
ReplyDeleteYou are the first one I've heard of speaking about butter peas. I love them but can't find the seeds. Will have to research further.
What a talented, imaginative and industrious gardener! Boggles my mind!
ReplyDeleteOh, you're eating well. It's healthy stuff. I think you already have a membership to that gym called a garden! :-)
Phillip, i'm glad you and your friends enjoyed it! It was alot of fun, but sure was hot...whew...
ReplyDeleteI thought that garden looked familiar. haha. That EG is definitely a crafty one. It's interesting to see his garden from someone else's view.
ReplyDeleteHow inspiring. I am getting my "feet wet" with the veggie gardening this year. I will be visiting this blog to get ideas for next yr!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great garden full of great ideas! I love all that space he has to grow his vegetables.
ReplyDeleteHi! Stopping over from EG's blog. It's nice to have another's view of his garden. I have to say, I'm a little jealous you were able to see it in person...
ReplyDeleteThe man's a genius!
ReplyDeleteI've just be checking the construction posts on his blog.
He's really an expert at what he does isn't he? I grow 'Cherokee Purple'. It is wonderful and pretty easy going. The squash bugs got all my squash. I wonder what he does to stop them.~~Dee
ReplyDeleteI've always admired EG for his wonderful swp/swcs! He's simply awesome is all I can say!
ReplyDeleteTidy, intensive vegetable gardens rock. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet Alabama gets hot enough for tomato volunteers to produce fruit. They're just start to come up in my garden right now, but there won't be enough regular heat to ripen any fruit, so they're weeds.