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Dr. Allan Armitage on Common Sense Answers for Retail Garden Center Customers (Video)

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With spring approaching, many consumers will visit garden centers with common-sense questions. Dr. A provides some common-sense answers you can give them.

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A pyrrosia scavenger hunt, at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden

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This year, during my annual February stop at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, I tried to stick to a few themes when snapping photos. Typically I just point the camera at anything that catches my eye (not a bad way to experience a beautiful garden), but not this time. One of my themes, pyrrosia, a scavenger hunt of sorts. The RSBG covers 22 acres. Within that space there are several main paths, and many others that are less traveled. I try to vary my route and I am often rewarded by something unexpected, like a pyrrosia growing in a downed log. The trick is being able to find that planting again the next time I visit.

I started in the Rutherford Conservatory, where I knew there were a few pyrrosia worth visiting. This handsome fellow is without signage.
At the base here is Pyrrosia sp. SEH#1511 (if my records are correct).
Out in the garden, and on one of those secondary paths, is a favorite log (branch?) planting. I think this is also Pyrrosia sp. SEH#1511.
The rhizomes are reaching out… look at that happy little frond!

Another NoID, although it’s very P. lingua-esque.
This was a new find on this visit.
Which is also P. lingua-esque (the sign above is referencing something else).
Pyrrosia sheareri in the RSBG/HFF stumpery. 
Also in the stumpery, this tiny little fellow. It looks a lot like one I bought from Far Reaches Farm as Pyrrosia davidii.
And more of that Pyrrosia sp. SEH#1511.
I think this one might be P. sp. SEH#12547 (but don’t quote me on that).
Last summer when I visited the RSBG with the Fling group I snapped this shot of a nice Pyrrosia sheareri clump, darned if I could find it again on this visit!
I did stumble across this planting though, which was new to me.
Lonicera crassifolia
And more Pyrrosia sp. SEH#1511, I believe (if you’ve got it, flaunt it!).

Perhaps P. sp. SEH#12547 again?
Okay that’s it for the pyrrosia scavenger hunt, but I have a few more more fern photos to share. This cutie (Polypodium scouleri?) was growing tucked in a mossy tree crotch (sorry, I just can’t think of another word to describe it)…

Headed to the stumpery I took the long way around the pond…
And was rewarded with a spectacular lichen sighting… I think this might be Peltigera membranacea…

Pretty cool!
Finally, a few photos from the stumpery, which was looking fine in February.

Chrysosplenium macrophyllum
They (Chrysosplenium macrophyllum) carpeted this area…

We will return to the RSBG for Friday’s blog post and a look at a few of the plants (non fern) that I grow which are also growing in the garden, and a few other “lust worthy” plants I photographed on my visit.

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This may not exactly fit the subreddit but I have a question on no till.

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I’m trying to start a large flower field to grow commercially. Last year I used weed block but it was very hard to direct sow and also cutting holes for every start was beyond miserable. I know the basis for a no till garden and how to start one (like cardboard or a burn, then compost, then mulch, and do cover crops). That being said trucking in compost and mulch that I don’t make myself is EXPENSIVE for me at least. I have access to a bunch of straw blankets that are 8’ x 50 and 8’ x 100. do you think I could lay these down over my soil (which i’ve been amending for the past year) as a weed block and mulch layer? Maybe do this for walking paths and then just put compost in between rows to make it cheaper. Any ideas are welcome for how I can do this cheaply and effectively. Thankyou

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