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Deborah Halfpenny’s insightful article, “Gardening with Natives”, caught my attention in the Summer 2023 Newsletter of the Mount Lassen Chapter, California Native Plant Society.
Deborah notes, “Before midsummer, I usually have a nice list of plants and seeds that I want to have on hand come fall. If I travel around the state during the summer, I watch for these plants and buy them as I find them. Keeping native plants happy in their containers through our hot, dry summers is a somewhat-challenging gardening job, but is easier, in my opinion, than searching, often unsuccessfully, to find those plants at the nurseries in the fall when stock is low and I’m ready to plant.”
It is discouraging when desired climate-adapted species are so hard to find in nurseries and may not be propagated anytime soon. Recently, I came across an uncommon plant perfect for a specific area in our garden. I will heed Deborah's excellent point and go back to the nursery, purchase it, and keep it happy in the pot until I plant it at the end of summer or beginning of fall when the ground is still warm and the rains are not too far away😊
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