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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

"Autumn Blaze" maple







Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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  1. Phillip, Stunning views~there's nothing like maples for autumn color! gail

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  2. What an apt name. I love the red against the cyan sky. Just perfect.

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  3. Now this is how the colors of Autumn are supposed to look!!

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  4. What a lovely sky behind that maple too. They compliment one another so well.

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  5. Love the top one, that is now my desktop background :)

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