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Garden Diary - June 2024


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Designed for Nature Garden Tour
Saturday, 15 June 2024


Designed For Nature: Garden of Pattie and Bob Carrier


The craftsman styled home has a compact in-town garden that is anchored with a mature beech tree.
A basin surrounds the tree, with moist soil suitable for ferns, sedges, turtlehead and other plants.

I have some concern about the tree. Its canopy looks sparse and uneven. There is a beech leaf disease that affects and kills both native and ornamental beech tree species. It is associated with a nematode, Litylenchus crenatae mccannii. This disease has only been discovered in recent years and much about it, including full cause and how it spreads, is still unknown. First discovered in Ohio in 2012 it has since spread to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Ontario, Canada.

Native shrubs such as witch hazel, winterberry holly and redbud add their seasonal appeal

Today it is a viburnum, exceptionally loaded with flowers. I hesitate to say they are fragrant.

That implies pleasant and this is more odiferous, especially with the quantity of bloom.


Parked at the curb in front of the Carriers property. Call it flowers on the move?
Blue flag iris, Iris versicolor, grows on damp sites. Let's hope the car stays dry.


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