Gardening

Created: 2024-05-09
Updated: 2024-07-24

A note on "digital gardens": This entire website is a thing I tend to, the Cards being the most explicitly garden-like section.

But that’s not what this page is for. This page is about…​

Natural gardens

This page is about horticulture, the cultivation and care of plants in a patch of soil.

I’m starting this page to house a page for my new thing:

In general, I’m learning that Nature is neat.

My plant "TODO" list

The Georgia Botanical Garden had an issue of their magazine with plants that are good for pollinators:

  • Liatris ("blazing star")

  • Clenthra ("summersweet")

  • Lachnanthes ("carolina redroot")

  • Echinacea purpurea ("eastern purple coneflower")

  • Stokesia ("stokes' aster")

But even better would be to plant stuff specific to my county using this tool by the National Wildlife Federation:

https://nativeplantfinder.nwf.org/Plants

Flowers (ranked by value as host plants):

  • Solidago ("goldenrod")

  • Helianthus ("sunflower")

  • Eupatorium ("joe-pye weed")

  • Panicum ("bulb panic grass")

  • Geranium

  • Viola ("violet")

  • Vernonia ("ironweed")

  • Baptisia ("wild indigo")

Trees and shrubs (ranked by value as host plants):

  • Quercus ("oak")

  • Prunus ("chokecherry")

  • Salix ("willow")

  • Carya ("hickory", "pecan")

  • Acer ("maple")

  • Vaccinium ("cranberry", "blueberry")

  • Populus ("aspen", "cottonwood", "poplar")

  • Ulmus ("elm")

(I learned about the above in the book Nature’s Best Hope (TODO: link when i’ve got my review up))

Books

TODO: I’ve starting reading books about gardening, conservation, pollinators, etc. I’m behind on writing them up, but when I get caught up, I’ll link to them here.

Links

I’ll start collecting links I’ve found useful for gardening in my area.