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A tale of two mangaves…

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In late 2023 I was given a few mangave pups by a visiting , who had separated them from his plants. They overwintered in the basement and I planted them out in spring of 2024. Can you see the two mangaves in this photo? No? Only see one?
Here they are with arrows…
This one (on the left in the above photo) was repeatedly chomped on by visiting rabbits.
This one, Mangave ‘Lavender Lady’ (on the right), was never touched. 
They were just a couple of feet away from each other, yet one was allowed to grow and look gorgeous, the other was snacked on all summer long. The only difference that I can see is that ‘Lavender Lady’ was mostly surrounded by Juniperus conferta ‘Blue Pacific’, and maybe that made it uncomfortable for the rabbits to cozy up to? Interesting. I will remember this in for the future. Since ‘Lavender Lady’ has Agave attenuata parentage it’s not at all hardy and I’ve lifted it for the winter. I left the other one in the ground for the rabbit jerks.
Truth be told, there’s now another mangave in the mix, since I brought this M. ‘Bloodspot’ home from a plant swap. Nobody else wanted it and I couldn’t let the poor thing go homeless. 
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Friday Fabulous Flower – Yellow Ginger

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 OK but first a shout out to Earth Day.  TTP remembers the first Earth Day, but mostly because of all the other struff that was going on, mostly anti war things and the Kent State shootings, deciding to try out grad school to study botany, and other things.  Sorry, Earth.This is called yellow ginger and it is not real ginger but a member of the Aristolochia or birthwort family. Our wild Ginger is almost a weed in our shade lawns and TPP first saw this plant at Brooklyn botanical garden back when it was still a botanical garden.  It is a smallish herbaceous perennial witth upright stems.  Our native wild ginger is Asarum canadense, a creeping plant with purple flowers along the prostrate stem often hidden from view by the heart shaped leaves.  This plant has 3-parted flowers although a dicot, and is quite fuzzy.  And it is the genus Saruma, and if you are quick with word games, you’ll notice that Saruma is Asarum spelled backwards with the a moved to the end.  A botanical joke?   Enjoy.  

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Lectures 2023

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Next year I continue to spread the gospel of crevice gardening, often tailored to different climates. 

But also, a pleasant change, I get to talk about no-water gardens/landscapes to wider audiences as well as meadow gardens.  I feel like I’ve done more dry landscaping work in my life than even crevices, and that I’m still as student of meadows, so its should prove to be just as educational to me .

2023 so far:

Manhattan Chapter NARGS (Zoom) Jan 16: Crevice gardens but mostly plants for them.

Utah Green Industry Conference (Salt Lake City) Jan23: Back to back crevice and no-water talks.

Christchurch Botanic, New Zealand,  Jan 27, afternoon crevice workshop in the Rock Garden with Grant.

Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants Conference (zoom) Feb 25 Real Unwatered Landscapes

High Plains Landscape Workshop (Fort Collins, CO) March 4 Home Meadow Gardens

Durango Botanic’s Gardening with Climate Change Seminar: Mar 9, 11 or 16 tbd, How to make a Future-proof Crevice garden

Spring Fever Symposium, Iowa Arboretum, Des Moines, IA April 15 2 talks: Crevice gardening for the midwest and favorite plants

Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society, Tucson, AZ Nov 2: Desert+Cactus Crevice Gardening 

Buddies: Isaiah, Jacob, and John during conferences last year.

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