Saturday May 11, 2019 9-Noon Ashland Garden Club 40th Anniversary Plant Sale The Club’s biggest fundraiser of the year!
Visit us in the Ashland Safeway parking lot where members will be creating beautiful Mother’s Day bouquets onsite and selling member-grown perennials, annuals, succulents, native wildflowers, vegetable plants and much more! NEW: Credit Card payments are accepted!
Controlling Diseases and Aphids on Your Roses booklet, by the OSU Extension Services, discusses the most common problems with roses: black spot, rust, powdery mildew, and aphids and the conditions that favor infection. It offers preventative measures and suggestions on how to control rose diseases and pests.
Read it here… Controlling Diseases and Aphids on Your Roses.
164 Sixth Street, Ashland OR
There is a special quality to the gardens at 164 Sixth Street, the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for May. It’s not just that children are so welcome and comfortable here and that plants seem always to be blooming, but that they are such interesting combinations of plants and hardscape. This is Karen Loop’s garden, where she has lived for 25 years, raised her two children–now adults, and has run a preschool, Sunflower Cottage, for 18 years.
Over the years, Karen planted everything on the property except the street tree, and created every pathway, planting bed, deck, and fence. Ten truckloads of soil were brought in. She collects heart-shaped stones that are displayed throughout. With both help and hindrance from young children, Karen maintains the garden with three-to-four hours a week of work, on average. The bare spot on the right side of the front yard is destined to be a tiny patio when Karen has recovered from a back injury.
This is a magical space where children are encouraged to explore. Right now, the dogwoods are in bloom, along with redbud, daphne, lilac, and viburnum. Among Karen’s favorite plants are peonies, feverfew, and foxglove. Camellias, Rose of Sharon, pieris, hellebore, hydrangea, and rhododendrons abound. There are beds for vegetables, blueberries, and raspberries toward the back, and play equipment in its own area.
Article by Ruth Sloan
Plant Name: Fothergilla (Dwarf)
Common name: Witch-Alder
Cultivar: ‘Mount Airy’
Plant type: Deciduous Shrub
Height: 3-5 ft
Spread: 3-5 ft
Bloom Time: April- May
Flower Color: White
Exposure: Full Sun –part shade
Soil Requirements: Well-drained, perfers Humus
Water Needs: Medium
Attributes: Showy bottlebrush-like tiny spikes (1-3” long),
Honey-scented fragrant flowers, Good summer foliage and Great fall color.
Uses: Hedges, shrub borders, foundation plantings or native plantings.
Notes: Plants do well with rhododendrons, because they have the same soil requirements.
Native to: Southeastern United States
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8
Submitted by: Carlotta Lucas
The Kwanzan Flowering Cherry Tree, is the showiest of all cherry trees. It’s light and dark pink blossoms are doubled, so its petal production creates more blossoms than any other flowering tree. Its blossoms are large thick clusters of 3-5 flowers, which look similar to carnations, and loads the tree with stunning flowers! This is an ornamental cherry, so it does not produce fruit. Kwanzan Cherry Trees bloom in April.
