The sanctioned garden at Little Lake Eureka has been beautiful this Spring! Our poppies have been the prominent flowers there the past few weeks and now the seed heads are adding interest. Various shades of Larkspur along with the native Purple Poppy Mallow promote the cottage garden look we want to create there. The Gulf […]
Tuesday, May 28, workday at the Berryville Public Library. Jan Scheel, Anita Engert, and Jennifer Hudspeth cleaned up storm debris, weeded, raked, trimmed bulb foliage and planted Kimberly Queen ferns in containers near the back entrance. We had some extra help from a hard-working little junior master gardener. The daylilies and ‘Snow Queen’ panicle hydrangeas
May 14, 2024 workday at the Berryville Public Library. Cynthia Osborne, Regina and Randy Hooten, Anita Engert and Jennifer Hudspeth raked, planted hostas, pruned the boxwood and soft leaf holly, weeded, and planted the containers. The ‘Scentlandia’ sweet spire shrubs are in bloom and their scent is wonderful. The native asclepius tuberose (butterfly milkweed), echinacea
May 4, 2024 Carroll County Masters took part in the BGO plant sale for the first time ever with a resounding success! After we set up, other vendors came to see what we had available. Our booth was an absolute hit, with several of the Botanical Gardens people telling us we had, by far, the best,
A recent workday at the Berryville Public Library. The perennials in the garden are beautiful. The peonies, iris, brunnera, ajuga, polygonatum (Solomon’s Seal), and polemonium (Jacob’s Ladder) are all in bloom. Anita Engert and Jennifer Hudspeth weeded, pruned, and transplanted hosta, hellebore, and iris to new locations in the garden. A weeping Japanese maple was
A recent workday at the Berryville Public Library. Jan Scheel, Regina and Randy Hooten, Anita Engert, and Jennifer Hudspeth mulched the garden beds, deadheaded spent foliage on tulips and daffodils, raked, weeded, and removed (actually tackled) an unfortunately dead Japanese Maple tree. The spring rains are very welcome. The garden looks lovely with late-blooming tulips and daffodils, iris
April 11 workday at Little Lake Eureka was a productive one. Jerry and Linda shaped the boxwoods, including the deer topiary, which is filling in nicely. Jennifer is thinning the sedum groundcover that seems to love this garden. We noticed that the deer have been browsing on the Gulf Coast Penstemon in the garden. Our
Master Gardeners had a workday at Little Lake Eureka on March 28, 2024. We deadheaded narcissus, pruned back old peony stems, and further readied the garden for Spring. The Ajuga groundcover was especially pretty.
Here are pictures of the Green Forest Library. The daffodils have finished and the tulips have begun to bloom. The hosts are starting to peak through the mulch Hopefully the forecast of the cold doesn’t happen! Workdays will be planned in the next few weeks but for now the garden looks pretty good.
Carroll County Master Gardeners had their first official workday March 14, with Linda Rogers and Jennifer Boardman participating. The Lenten Roses and narcissus flowers are beautiful now! We saw many poppy and larkspur seedlings, and the native cardinal flower and blue lobelia are greening up. The boxwood in the deer topiary is filling in
Spring has sprung in the Berryville Public Library garden! The bulbs we planted in previous years are blooming beautifully. Master gardeners Jan Scheel, Anita Engert, and Jennifer Hudspeth worked and discussed plans for the season. The blue atlas cedar and hollies were fertilized, with plans to fertilize hydrangeas and perennials at our next workday. We
CCMG’s last 2023 workday at the Berryville Library was full of bulb planting, leaf raking, watering, and general garden maintenance. Thank you to CC Extension Agent Monty Rexwinkle, and gardeners Jan Scheel, Regina Hooten, Randy Hooten, Anita Engert, and Jennifer Hudspeth for their help. Tulips, grape hyacinth, and daffodil bulbs were planted along the rear garden beds.
