Hort Shorts
- If you’re creating a garden in a grassy area, it’s important to cultivate the soil so the roots of newly-set plants can penetrate. Aerate using a spade, pitchfork, or hoe. For a large garden area, you may want to rent or borrow a motor-driven cultivator.
- A strikingly beautiful background plant for the flower bed is yellowroot (Zanthorhiza apiifolia). It grows about one-and-a half feet tall. Yellowroot does best in partial or dense shade, as a background for a flowerbed at the base of a hedge. It requires rich soil which contains much humus. Its blooms are brownish-purple and appear in May.
- The azalea variety encore blooms in summer, fall, and spring.