A photo essay of AGC Member Lynn McDonald’s garden May 2024.
Photos by Lynn McDonald
Today in the Garden: Lynn’s May Flowers
Category Archives: Horticulture Reports
Horticulture Report: 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.
Garden Art
Ashland Garden Club Member
AGC’s April tour of Marydee’s gardens
Photos by: Lynn McDonald, AGC Member
Garden Poster
The Untended Garden in March!
Excuse the weeds, but the bumbles bees like them.
~Garden and Poster by Goly Ostovar, AGC Member
Fungi Fun
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2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Click the link below to check if your USDA Plant Hardiness Zone assignment has changed; search by zip code. Half of the USA has been reclassified. In 1990 Ashland Oregon was Zone 7b: 5°F to 10°F, but in 2023 Ashland is now Zone 8a 10°F to 15°F. Knowing your zone is important for plant survival in your area.
https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/
Below is a link to ‘A Way To Garden’ interview with Todd Rounsaville, USDA horticulturist and research scientist, where he explains this new USDA Zone map.
Below is a link to an Interesting 2018 article from Yale Environment 360 on how fast climate zones are shifting.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/redrawing-the-map-how-the-worlds-climate-zones-are-shifting