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…
If you have not heard, our Nursery Manager, Vince Vizachero, is leaving Blue Water Baltimore. After five years with us, we are sad to see him go, but know he will continue to do great work for Native Plants in the Baltimore region. Vince has made a tremendous impact to our organization and to our…
When it comes to choosing plants for your yard, the choices can seem overwhelming. Every gardener, when they first began gardening in earnest, struggled to figure out what plants were the best plants for their gardens. The variables can appear to be endless: sun or shade; wet or dry; acidic or alkaline; short or tall;…
Here are some trees that Darin Crew, Senior Manager for Nursery and Forestry at Blue Water Baltimore, thinks you may want to consider for your yard this spring. At Blue Water Baltimore, we use these both in our yard, street, and open space planting programs. All are native and all are also sold at Herring…
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: Daylilies Daylilies (Hemerocallis fulva) are so popular in Maryland that it is hard to believe that they aren’t native, but they aren’t. The common orange daylily is Asian and has infested…