Each fall, the Jackson County Master Gardener Association holds a gardening symposium. A day of classes cost $45, which includes lunch.
You select one c
lass from an array of subjects from each session.
Read more about it here..
https://jacksoncountymga.org/winter-dreams-summer-gardens-symposium/
Today in the garden: October 2, 2018
Fall Flowers:
Asters – Chrysanthemums – Coreopsis – Salvia microphylla- Dusty Miller
PURPLE TOAD LILLY
Tricyrtis hirta, the toad lily is a Japanese species of hardy perennial in the lily family. Tricyrtis hirta is found growing on shaded rocky cliffs and stream banks in central and southern Japan.
Its unique showy flowers bloom in late August through September, and produces multiple clusters of flowers. Flowers are small, lily-like flowers about 1 inch long with six showy tepals. It’s easily grown in average, medium to wet, well-drained soils in part to full shade. The plant is 15-24 inches high and wide. Bees loved it!
USDA Hardiness Zones 4-8.
Submitted by: Carlotta Lucas
204 Alicia Avenue
You can often tell, just by looking at a garden (house too) that someone artistic lives there. Such is the case at 204 Alicia Avenue which is the Ashland Garden Club’s September Garden of the Month. This is the home of Betsy and her husband Chuck. Betsy is a Crafts Artisan in the costume shop at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. They have lived in the home for eight years.
The house remodeling and garden hardscape were a collaborative design effort with James Stiritz of Dragonfly Construction. Wonderful details abound in the decorative fencing, garden screens, and car arbor.
Betsy prefers curves to straight lines in the garden and she is conscious of textures and scale as well as color. Irrigation and original plantings were by Carol’s Colors, but Betsy has moved, replaced, and added to the vegetation in the intervening years. In the summer, she spends a couple of hours a day working in the yard.
The musical notes of a seasonal creek and pond add to the calming ambiance of the backyard retreat.
Among the many interesting plants are a smoke tree, grasses, ferns, spirea, rock rose, morning glory, euphorbia, and eucalyptus. Edibles include plum, cherry, and crabapple.
Article by Ruth Sloan
Photos by Larry Rosengren
Submitted by: Carlotta Lucas