Mountain-Toes Gardening

“Perennials” are plants that, once properly set-in and adjusted to their location, can continue to live, produce or maintain foliage, and in some cases produce flowers year after year.  Often (but not always) the term perennial is applied to plants that produce weather-resistant woody stems.  We’re not talking about trees, here.  And usually the term [...]

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Our place is situated on a bench near the bottom of Perry Ridge’s east slope – in other words, on the toes of a mountain.  Our land is a sand bench.  The soil here is deep sand for the most part, nearly like beach sand once you dig down below the surface vegetation – though [...]

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