I KNOW what you’re thinking – one week you're told to embrace shade, the next I’m saying what an unproductive and unattractive place it can be. It differs, of course, according to the context – from a ...
Sunlight slowly wakes the garden after its deep sleep during the foggy days in the past month. Light streams through every space created by the bare branches, and new life becomes visible again. The ...
Always clean and sharpen tools you won't be using for a while. It's a good idea to wipe the metal blades with an oily cloth. This coats them with a thin layer of protective oil to help prevent ...
Clive Edwards tells us about the evergreen shrub elaeagnus, which has many uses in the garden ELAEAGNUS is a much planted evergreen shrub which is fast growing, very hardy and flourishes in any garden ...
Find out how to grow Elaeagnus pungens 'Maculata' ...
Q: My Elaeagnus plants are dying branch by branch. First branch turns a mottled yellow then brown, and the entire branch is dead. It is now affecting many of the Elaeagnus plants I have lining my back ...
Some plants come into their own in winter and early spring when most plants have lost their leaves and have little to offer by way of garden ornament. Elaeagnus is a beacon amid the bare branches. It ...
A romantic guy would probably remember the perfume his wife wore on their very first date. This plant geek remembers the aroma that filled the air on James Parkway across my childhood home there in ...
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Elaeagnus commutata Uses United States (Montana) berries eaten by the Blackfoot, Stoney/Assiniboine and other Native American groups.