Misc Gardening Thread

[ChrisAMB]

Anyone trying to go native with the plantings? I went to a local native plant nursery and shopped online to stock up on baby trees, bushes, and perennials. Slowly trying to take over my monoculture Bermuda backyard. When you buy small and plant in the fall you give the natives a fighting chance

2 northern red oaks
2 shagbark hickories
Redbud
Sourwood
Black gum (nyssa sylvatica)
Red lobelia
Blue lovelia
American beautyberry
Buttonbush
A few types of milkweed
Native Monarda
Joe pye weed

Excited for spring.

We did this over a decade ago with great success. What soil type do you have? Sand or clay you can plant longleaf pine. There's a huge effort to replace them in urban areas recently. I see them more and more sold retail at around 4' high. There's some drawbacks to planting container pines and honestly the best ones I have were ones that were a foot or two tall that I dug up from a friend's land with a enough soil to never see the roots. They're turning into beautiful trees taller than me now.

We went with Shumar Red Oaks since they tend to grow a bit quicker and are more drought tolerant. They needed more shaping than I planned on but now are doing great.

 

[J.C.]

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Once this rain clears out definitely need to get some pre emergent down. Soil temp has been over 50 for over a week and I am seeing signs of life in the Bermuda.

Absolutely. I can only imagine spring is moving rapidly north out of Florida.

 

[JQPublic]

We did this over a decade ago with great success. What soil type do you have? Sand or clay you can plant longleaf pine. There's a huge effort to replace them in urban areas recently. I see them more and more sold retail at around 4' high. There's some drawbacks to planting container pines and honestly the best ones I have were ones that were a foot or two tall that I dug up from a friend's land with a enough soil to never see the roots. They're turning into beautiful trees taller than me now.

We went with Shumar Red Oaks since they tend to grow a bit quicker and are more drought tolerant. They needed more shaping than I planned on but now are doing great.

Mix between sandy clay and clay. I wouldn’t mind a few long leaf pine. They don’t come this far into Wake County, maybe the native range. I’m a big fan of short leaf pine. Hoping to snag a few bc only loblolly seams to grow in SW Wake CTY.

 

[J.C.]

Mix between sandy clay and clay. I wouldn’t mind a few long leaf pine. They don’t come this far into Wake County, maybe the native range. I’m a big fan of short leaf pine. Hoping to snag a few bc only loblolly seams to grow in SW Wake CTY.

I can’t remember where I read it, but the long leaf pine population is very low from logging and fire over the years. Loblolly has replaced it being a faster grower and spreader. Wake county is an interesting place because you literally have Sandhills of loblolly/longleaf pine, but the northwest side is Virginia/shortleaf. That few hundred feet of elevation and soil changes everything.