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Gardening

tosh

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9. Thanks!

Reply to Botany (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 05:17 PM

Mar 2018

I have Tallamy's The Living Landscape and a couple of others that I've been reading this winter, but I'll try to get these too.

We have a landscape plan for "the yard" around the house that is totally native. But we are letting a pro do this while we work on turning the smaller of our two fields into a meadow/"wild" orchard so I've been studying native grasses and wildflowers for the Coastal Plain.

It'll be great to have an advisor with some real experise!

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Don't destroy tomato hornworms, unless they are a real problem. read below why! [View all] bluestarone Feb 2018 OP

I don't touch 'em because I get the braconid wasp eggs (cocoons) on them pdq Botany Feb 2018 #1

yuck never seen that!! bluestarone Feb 2018 #2

Lucky you! tosh Feb 2018 #3

plant native plants and let a hornworm stick around for a little bit. Botany Feb 2018 #4

I am not so new to gardening, but quite new tosh Mar 2018 #7

Get Doug Tallamy's bringing nature home and the Xerces Society Attracking Native Pollinators Botany Mar 2018 #8

Thanks! tosh Mar 2018 #9

Possum Haw viburnum ...... plant 2 .... you'll get more fruit Botany Mar 2018 #10

I break off the branch of the tomato plant and toss the entire thing into the hedgerow. femmocrat Feb 2018 #5

I do the same Bayard Mar 2018 #11

watch one on youtube here bluestarone Feb 2018 #6

I have seen these in the flowers Bayard Mar 2018 #12