July 22, 2020 16 Drought-Tolerant Plants for Your Garden, Drying Flowers, Neil Muller, John Drayton Hastie, Louise Klein Miller, The Sleep of Seeds by Lucia Cherciu, Making More Plants by Ken Druse, and San Jose Scale
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16 Drought Tolerant Plants to Grow in Your Garden | Ken Druse | Garden Design
“Drought-tolerant plants can be identified just by looking at them or feeling or smelling their bruised foliage. Many fragrant herbs, for example, are drought-tolerant.”
- Larkspur and Nigella
- Morning Glory
- Portulaca ("Port-you-LAKE-ah") Rose Moss
- Annual sunflowers
- Achillea (yarrow)("Ack-ah-LEE-ah)
- Silphium ("SILL-fee-um) Cup Plant
- Helianthemum ("HE-LEE-anthemum") Rock Rose
- Rudbeckia black-eyed Susan
- Echinacea Coneflower
- Ratibida ("RAH-tib-it-ah") Grey-headed Coneflower
- Asters
- Dianthus
- Euphorbias
- Foxgloves
- Sempervivum
- Sedum
- Tulips
- Mulleins
- Bearded Iris
- Lilacs
Have you ever tried drying flowers?
Successfully drying one of your favorite flowers is such a joy.
Some flowers look even better when they are dried.
There are many options for drying flowers; air drying is the simplest. Then, of course, there's pressing.
If you've never tried sand drying a bloom, you should give it a shot. Just fill a microwave-safe container with a layer of silica sand. Put the flower on top of the sand and then bury the bloom in the sand. Place the bloom along with a cup of water in the microwave. Heat in microwave in 30-second increments. Your flower should be dried in 2-3 minutes.
Another step you can take in your flower-drying hobby is to prepare a spot in your garden shed, garage, pantry, or kitchen for drying flowers.
Repurpose a pot rack or do something simple like string some twine between some eye hooks. Sometimes just creating space can inspire you to take some cuttings and bring beautiful blooms indoors. One of my favorite pictures from my garden is a single row of hydrangea cuttings drying upside down in my kitchen. Bliss.
Botanical History On This Day
1909 Cornelius Herman “Neil” Muller, American botanist, was born; he pioneered the study of allelopathy—the chemistry of plants that hinder or help their neighbors.
1917 John Drayton Hastie, ninth-generation steward of Magnolia Gardens, was born; he devoted his life to restoring the South’s legendary azalea and oak-lined paradise.
1938 Louise Klein Miller, Cleveland’s pioneering landscape architect, retired after decades tending Memorial Gardens for the Collinwood school fire’s 175 victims.
Unearthed Words
A father’s faith in parched soil—Lucia Cherciu’s meditation on hope and the hidden sleep of seeds. The Sleep of Seeds
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Read The Daily Gardener review of Making More Plants by Ken Druse
Buy the book on Amazon: Making More Plants by Ken Druse
Today's Botanic Spark
Louise Klein Miller’s “San Jose Scale” Lesson — A humorous classroom tale in which a horticulture student, sent to read about a plant pest, is misdirected by the librarian… to the music department.
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