A helpful AP article by Dean Fosdick reminds me as I prepare my fall bulb order that my garden is plagued by deer, chipmunks, voles and other critters. So while I may leave the fancy tulips to those not-so-blessed with wildlife, I have no shortage of flower-bulb choices.
The Chicago Botanical Garden has this helpful list of wildlife resistant bulbs. Pictures of some of my favorites follow.
- Allium
- Anemone
- Arum italicum
- Bulbocodium vernum
- Chionodoxa
- Colchicum
- Dichelostemma
- Fritillaria
- Galanthus
- Geranium tuberosum
- Hyacinthoides
- Ipheion
- Leucojum
- Muscari
- Nectaroscordum siculum (pictured)
- Narcissus
- Ornithogalum
- Scilla
Nectaroscordum
Narcissus of all kinds. (I’m partial to these thalia daffs)
Scilla
Colchicum (fall flowering)
Leucojum
Fritillaria
Galanthus
Allium (with euphorbia)
Chionodoxa
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Update [9/29/09]: Cornell Chronicle article.
Cross posted from Cornell Horticulture blog. I used the same time-lapse technique that I used in this post.
Sod sofa in 60 seconds from Cornell Horticulture on Vimeo.
Marcia Eames-Sheavly’s Art of Horticulture class — with the assistance of turf specialist Frank Rossi and Cornell Plantations staff — spent the afternoon of September 8 creating a sod sofa in the pond area of the F.R. Newman Arboretum.
Students raked and shoveled to shape the sofa in a slope near the pond’s edge. Then under Frank’s tutelage put the sod in place. In 2007 and 2008, the class built sod sculptures at Bluegrass Lane Turf and Landscape Research Facility adjacent to the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course.
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… in 100 days. That’s what (often garden) blogger Ina at Unbound confine did. (Hat tip to eschaton.)
Powerful.
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His new one, Time Stands Still, drops this week. Video is Hold On from 2003 Philly Folk Festival
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