-
Rosehips from Raintree Nursery
While you are busy planting those blueberry bushes…consider what to place in the planting bed with them. How about a rose variety that produce rose hips? I did the same thing as I did with the blueberry bushes. I planted them and forgot about them…until they began to bloom! Move over “knock out” roses! (they might be pretty but they don’t produce these beautiful rose hips!) I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have beauty AND purpose in my planting beds! The most Vitamin C you’ll find is in rose hips. It was recommended to me several years ago to plant a certain kind of rose bush that produces…
-
Plant those Blueberry bushes in the yard and forget them till summer!
This Blog post in inspired by an article that I found from Chelseagreen’s blog “Grow Berries in Your Low-Light Urban Space“ I found the article on twitter and retweeted the link also adding that I have 2 bushes in my yard. @Chelseagreen requested a picture of my blueberries. I was not in a place where I could go find the good pictures of the bushes. In the article, it talks about how low light is not a problem with these bushes. My spot where I planted them gets direct sunlight for most of the day. To offer the lovelies a little bit of shade, I have Canna Lilies that sprout…
