Horticulture Report: Lamium

Orchid Frost Lamium

Lamium plants, also known as Spotted Dead Nettles, are deer-resistant ground covers that grow in a part- sun to semi-shade. Different varieties flower in white, pink or purple. Flowers are delicate and dainty. Lamium’s two-toned foliage provides interest, when the plant is not in bloom.

Perennial Plant, Height: 4-6″ Width: 15″-18″, Blooms early spring- early summer, USDA Zone: 3-9,

Lamium maculatum ‘Aureum’ is a cultivar with gold to chartreuse foliage.

Aureum

N. Mt Park Heirloom Gardeners

AGC’s Heirloom gardeners worked today in the North Mountain Park Heirloom Garden. The garden is looking good, but there’s always more weeds to pull! Today was perfect weather for gardening. ~Lynn ~photos by Lynn McDonald

Garden on the Month: April 2024

The condo complex called Ridgeview Place is the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for April 2024.  The 12-unit development faces Mountain Avenue just southwest of the corner with East Main Street.  The five homes that are numbers 51 through 59 face the street and the other seven homes are behind.  The complex was built in 2015 by KDA Homes.  KDA’s owner, Laz Ayala, hired landscape architect Laurie Sager (now Thornton) for the initial design.

Photo by Ruth Sloan
Photo by Jeffrey Seideman

Since then, owners have taken opportunities to express their individuality, occasionally with professional help.  Note, for example, the wonderful use of magnolias to heighten the screening from the street at numbers 51 and 59.

Photo by: Ruth Sloan

The use of yuccas along Mountain Avenue, part of the original design by Sager, provide a unifying theme and present a stunning sight when in full bloom each summer.  Boxwoods, choisya, day lilies, and daphne were also liberally specified.  Common areas are maintained by Miguel Cabrera and his crew from Promack Landscaping.

Photo by Larry Rosengren
Photo by: Ruth Sloan

Each unit has a private patio where owners can plant whatever they want.  Other changes must be approved by the homeowners Board.  A fountain was added later for the soothing sound and lovely sight.

Photo by Jeffrey Seideman

Article by Ruth Sloan, AGC Garden of the Month Chairperson

Backyard Birds: Red-breasted Nuthatch

Red-breasted Nuthatch:  Red-breasted Nuthatches are tiny colorful song birds. At the bird feeder they like to eat peanuts, sunflower seeds, nyjar seeds and suet.  During the summer, they eat mainly insects, beetles, caterpillars, spiders, ants, and earwigs. Red-breasted Nuthatches breed and winter throughout Oregon. They live in conifer and mixed hardwood forest and in winter they can be found in woodland areas from the valley floors to the mountains.

Photo by Kathy Munsel, Oregon Dept. Fish and Wildlife

Garden Poster

The Untended Garden in March!

Excuse the weeds, but the bumbles bees like them.

~Garden and Poster by Goly Ostovar, AGC Member