In honor of the Baltimore Herb Festival this Saturday, we’ve been thinking a lot about native edible plants. Guest blogger Skylar Gibbons-Reich, manager of Hidden Harvest Farm and Herring Run Nursery edible plant expert, put together this guide of five natives you didn’t know you could eat! When you think about edible native plants the…
This time of year you will probably notice Aphids clustered along stems and leaves in your garden. Many gardeners ask themselves what to do about Aphids. Our answer is simple: If you want your garden to support the ecosystem, leave the Aphids alone. Aphids do not damage Native plants, especially if the plants are not…
This week is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Herring Run Nursery will be focusing each day on one invasive plant and a native alternative. Don’t Plant: Japanese Spurge Brought from Eastern Asia as an ornamental ground-cover, Japanese Spurge (Pachysandra) is an aggressively spreading evergreen. Japanese Spurge is still widely used in landscaping today. However, Japanese Spurge…
This week is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Herring Run Nursery will be focusing each day on one invasive plant and a native alternative. Don’t Plant: Burning Bush Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus) is planted by unsuspecting home-owners for its brilliant red color. However, many Burning Bush lovers don’t realize that this “wow-factor” shrub can quickly invade forests, and force…
This week is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Herring Run Nursery will be focusing each day on one invasive plant and a native alternative. Don’t Plant: Chinese Silver Grass You’ve probably seen Chinese Silver Grass (Miscanthus sinensis) in landscaping around parking lots or office buildings. This grass is chosen by landscapers for its size and showy elegance. However,…
This week is National Invasive Species Awareness Week. Herring Run Nursery will be focusing each day on one invasive plant and a native alternative. Don’t Plant: Nandina Nandina (Nandina domestica) is such a common landscaping shrub that you might have thought it was a native plant. Actually, Nandina was brought to North America as an ornamental…
Winter Update: Plant Production at Herring Run Nursery While plants sit dormant at the Nursery, there’s a lot of work to do before Spring. As you have probably heard, Herring Run Nursery went through some big changes this fall. Rob Jenkins, former grower at Sun Nursery, joined the team as the Nursery Manager and he…
Wild Propagation at Chesapeake Natives: Volunteer Opportunity! When you look at a tray of perennials from Chesapeake Natives Inc. each plant is slightly different—an exquisite example of nature’s diversity. Most plant nurseries produce plants from cuttings, growing plants that are genetically identical. However, at Chesapeake Natives, volunteers grow native local ecotypes from seed foraged in…