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AM 1090 Welcomes...
Scott Conner. He's back to his roots...live on AM1090 Saturday from 10am-noon.
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| ABOUT THE SHOW |
 Local organic gardening guru and horticulturist, Scott Conner will take calls and questions about water conservation, composting, soil building, and controlling pests and diseases the natural way.
Comments and questions can be submitted to Scott at 206.436.1090 or 877.753.1090. E-mail Scott Conner at gardening@am1090seattle.com.
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| BOOK REVIEWS |
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 "Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants for Gardens and Landscapes"
Timber Press
By Kathleen A. Robson, Alice Richter, and Marianne Filbert
"This comprehensive reference describes garden-worthy ferns, conifers, and flowering plants (annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs) native to the Pacific Northwest. Featured are some 530 subject species that occur naturally from southwestern Alaska to Oregon's border with California, and from the coast east to Idaho. Illustrated throughout with nearly 600 eye-popping color photographs and original pen-and-ink drawings, the book is smartly separated by plant type into five encyclopedic sections. Detailed descriptions include temperature hardiness zones, flowering and fruit-ripening times, and recommendations for cultivation and siting. Whatever their motivation, gardeners and conservationists alike will find much of value and interest in this impeccably presented and illustrated regional resource, which is sure to become a classic on the subject."
Enjoy Gardening!
Scott Conner
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| Native Plant of the Month |
 Marsh Marigold Caltha leptosepala
Very charming plants for the bog garden, artificial or natural, with fleshy round leaves. Yellow or white buttercup-like flowers in the early summer. With the popularity of water gardening, this native can now be found in nurseries. Grows in sun to part shade with wet peaty soil to about 15" clumps. This is a VERY nice native.
Timber Press: Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants for Gardens and Landscapes
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Gardening Tips:
Check for aphids on your roses and peas. Release lady bugs and look for other predators before spraying. Hand picking and spraying with water often will control aphid populations. Set tuberous begonias outside in dappled shade, postioning leaf points in the directions you want flowers. Plant annuals as a cover-up for the fading leaves of spring flowering bulbs. Most annuals like clarkia, cosmos, snapdragons, petunias and schizanthus can go in now. You can attract butterflies by planting asters, coreopsis, lavender, phlox and thyme. If you recycle the grass clippings on your lawn, you are returning nutrients to the grass plants and are keeping the clippings out of the landfills. If you do catch the grass, put it into your compost bins, mixed with other things they will shortly be "brown gold'.
Happy Gardening. Scott
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d let it melt on it's own. Don't forget the birds, keep their feeders clean and stocked with fresh food. Feeding them will encourage them to return in spring and summer and feed on insects.
Scott
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