The Year in Trees by J.C. Raulston and Kim Tripp

As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast: A Year in Trees by J. C. Raulston and Kim Tripp This book came out in 1995, and the subtitle is Superb Woody Plants for Four-Season Gardens. Tripp honed her craft at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, where she wrote weekly articles for the North Carolina State University Arboretum in…

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July 17, 2019 Daylilies, John McMahan, Charles Theodore Mohr, George William Francis, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, Niels Mogens Bodecker, A Year in Trees by JC Raulston and Kim Tripp, Calendarize Garden Chores, and the Night-blooming Cereus

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The Daylilies are blooming their little hearts out right now. Daylilies are in the genus Hemerocallis which has about 15 species of daylilies. They are not part of the Lilium genus, which is the genus for true lilies. The name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words ἡμέρα (Hemera) “day” and καλός (Kalos) “beautiful.” In China,…

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