Dan Callahan ’s story about how a industrial plant arouse his passion for horticulture is beautiful ! What plant did it for you ?
" I have been in my house for 20 years ( Cincinnati , Ohio ) . My love of gardenIng was awakened about 15 yrs ago I guess when I decided to constitute some hostas in a shaded area . That waking up turned into a warmth which leave in a career alteration . I have now been employed full - clip in the glasshouse industry for almost 12 yr . My garden has been a labor of love and encyclopedism .
My circumstances is a little over 1/3 of an acre and the neighbors have allowed me a picayune overlap . I ’ve been very blessed with a comparatively small but multi - leveled lot . I feel it has cater me so much more opportunity & attribute than with a flat great deal of the same size . When I moved in there had been some mark piece of work done and some native woodland trees were here and some landscaping which I have replaced . But I have added pretty much everything else . I think I count 16 trees that I ’ve planted but I have n’t bothered to enumerate the shrubs or perennial . One of my favorite garden quotation is ' It is only to the gardener that time is a booster , give each year more than he steal ' . "
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I got extremely luck with this shot from 2014. Concolor fir on right, deer standing in front to of Black gum.
Snowflake oakleaf hydrangea.
‘Zagreb’, ‘Fineline buckthorn, purple loostrife, ‘Stargazer’ lily.
‘Adagio’ grasses, ‘Skyrocket’ English oak, weeping white pine, Veronicastrum ‘Fascination’, Hypericum calcium (foreground groundcover).
Black gum (left rear), ‘Slender Silhouette’ sweetgum, ‘Skyrocket’ columnar English Oak, Redbud (overhanging to right).
Aside from their toughness hostas are so alluring. To see nothing but bare dirt in my bed of various hostas in the dead of winter, then the slightest little spikes protruding when Spring just begins. Then to see them grow several inches daily as Spring continues until they reach their fully expanded glory is nothing short of inspirational.
