Re: Bed preparation/Doug Ruhren

Marge...I KNOW!!  When I went to his 'Plants for Winter Interest' the first
year he was here, he showed 113 slides of plants and when he talked I was
entranced.  He was wonderful!  Then and there I decided to make him my
friend.  I have given him heirloom rose clippings to root and this summer he
came to my house to dig heirloom iris rhizomes for the garden.  He is so
personable and a vertible 'walking encyclopedia' (his nickname among the
staff at Stowe Garden).  I was absolutely thrilled to 'sit at his feet', so
to say.  On Sept. 7th. he is giving a workshop on shade gardening and I am
taking that.  You should come, Marge!
     Thank you to all who have responded about killing the grass off first.
In the past we have actually just tilled the grass alive for beds
(impatient, I know), but then have to pull grass for months--bummer.
Lynn
>
> Boy did you do some great enticing.  Douglas Ruhren used to be at
> Montrose Nursery as well as J. C. Raulston Arboretum....a real
> plantsman!  That must have been a marvelous couple of hours.
>
> Sounds like you're gonna have some fun, Lynn!
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> > From: Lynn Lamb <lynnlamb@carolina.rr.com>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >      We have enjoyed many days of coolness and rain, so naturally
> my mind has
> > been working overtime thinking about and planning an enlarged
> perennial bed.
> > What I would like to know from you--do you always kill the grass
> first before
> > tilling the soil?  What is the general thinking about this?  Any
> good websites
> > you know of?  I am adverse to using chemicals, but husband thinks
> we should
> > kill grass first with Round-Up.  Marge, I am printing out your
> articles on
> > Planting Basics now...have not read them yet.  I was fortunate
> enough to
> > entice the Head Gardener of Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Douglas
> Ruhren, to
> > let me buy his dinner if he would give me advice for my garden.
> So, for 2 1/2
> > hrs. he and I discussed and came up with a rough plan to improve
> and enlarge
> > what I already have.  Hubby and I went out and marked it off with
> neon orange
> > paint this afternoon.  I will be using alot more shade plants than
> I have in
> > the past and am excited about the posssiblity of growing plants
> that are new
> > to me.  So, please give me some advice about the Round-Up.   Thanks
> in
> > advance.
> > Lynn Lamb
> > NC Zone 7b
> >
> >
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