Organic Insect Control for Summer
Arbor Gate's Beverly Welch was joined by Angela Chandler from The Garden Academy. Bev and Angela discussed organic insect control for this summer.
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- [Beverly] Welcome to the
Arbor Gate. I'm Beverly Welch,
here today with my dear friend Ann Wheeler
of Loghouse Herbs. It is the dog days of
summer here on the Gulf Coast, but we
want to make sure that you understand,
we can plant any time. So we decided to
put together this gorgeous garden.
- [Ann] Beautiful.
- Low maintenance, insect
resistant, deer resistant, drought
torrent once established,
just a beautiful garden.
And these are all...yes,
these are all herbs.
- Every single one of them.
- And we want you to understand
that not all herbs have to be
culinary. An herb is just a useful
plant, so it may be medicinal,
it may be aromatic,
and it may be culinary.
- That's absolutely right.
And those properties can be found
throughout this garden,
in every single plant.
- And we have more
fun putting it together.
- Putting it together, yes.
- We wanted to point out a few
plants that you may be overlooking,
but qualify in your herb garden
and in your landscape in general.
- And each one of them that we're
going to talk about specifically today
has a special role to play.
- It does.
- One way or another.
- So we're going to pick out just
a few of our favorites along the way.
- Yes.
- So would you like to get started now?
- I certainly would. That's a beautiful
one, and I love it because A,
it is an oregano, which means it's
really especially easy to grow.
It fills some space in the garden, and
it really is colorful. This is its color,
this golden green. Stunning.
- Stunning as is and great in containers.
- Great for the containers,
spilling over the edge.
- I love the artemisias. They
are going to offer fragrance,
but what beautiful texture and foliage
color that they add. They make anything
bright and light, like this gorgeous
Echinacea right up against this silver
foliage. So this is one of my favorites.
- Yes, it's a beautiful contrast to the
color, and it also fills space.
- It does. Another often overlooked
gem is the Mexican oregano.
It almost makes, here on the Gulf
Coast, a semi evergreen shrub,
depending on our winter. It blooms all
summer. It's a great mounder,
three to four feet tall and wide,
and a great pollinating plant.
The hummingbirds, the butterflies, love
these beautiful lavender blooms.
- The shrub, once it makes the shrub
form, will be covered with these
sweet little lavender blooms.
- Right. Beautiful in a cottage garden.
- Yes.
- Beautiful. Another one that is often
overlooked in the herb house is the
cat mint, and you don't have
to have a cat to grow it.
- Cat mint is a very traditional
plant in an English cottage
garden, and it is not, in fact, cat nip.
It is a whole different name,
horticulturally speaking. And it's a
beautiful, soft, gray green color.
Once again with lavender flowers
that attract pollinators. In fact,
almost all of these attract
a lot of pollinators.
- Absolutely.
- And beneficial insects as well.
- And you know what people miss
by not using these aromatic plants in
their garden are the fragrances. When
you're out in the garden, you're working,
you rub up against them, even when you
get a nice breeze in the summer, it's so
refreshing, it's so nice in the evenings
to walk out and just smell.
- Smell the air.
- Exactly.
- And a little sprinkle of
rain brings that aroma to the front.
- Right. One of my favorites is the
tagetes, the Mexican marigold,
that anise fragrance. It's a
great tarragon substitute,
but a brilliant, brilliant
perennial on the Gulf Coast.
- And in the fall, it's
covered with yellow flowers,
just masses of them. So it is
an amazing floral...
- It is.
- ...contributor as well.
And same with this one.
- Yes. And it is, again, the fragrance,
great repellents for our deer.
- Yeah. And Copper Canyon
Daisy is the name of this one,
and it's extremely aromatic.
- It is. And I know some of your
favorites are the thymes.
- Absolutely. This is one of
my very favorites. For one thing,
the silver thyme is a good culinary thyme,
but also it is has this upright habit that
makes it so easy to harvest for the
kitchen. An a spot of silver in the
garden never goes wrong.
- No, never.
- Beautiful.
- Well, you know, oftentimes,
and we keep mentioning,
a lot of these guys are evergreen. This is
a myrtus communis, or a true myrtle.
Not to be confused with wax myrtle.
This, again, makes a nice compact
shrub, three to four feet tall
and wide. The foliage is very aromatic,
actually culinary. And it gets covered
during the summer with this sweet,
white flower that is itself aromatic.
Beyond The Garden Gate - Episode 2 - The Nashua Historical Society Arbor Day Celebration
To celebrate Arbor Day, the NHS received a Special Award for their Black Walnut Tree from Guest Speaker Jonathan Nute of The University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension. This Black Walnut tree holds the distinct honor of being the second largest in the State, and is approximately 150 years old. Host Linda Temperino interviewed Curator Beth McCarthy, and learned more about the other trees adorning the property from arborists Ted Sayce and Kevin Fredette, who help maintain the property. The day included children's activities, and tours of both museums. For all those attending, a special gift from the State nursery in Boscawen- free balsam fir seedlings, ready for planting.
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