Hey there, Plant Pals! It’s Ken Lain, the Top 10 Gardener, here to inspire you with the untamed beauty of wild landscapes.
Imagine a garden where echinacea’s stand tall, their purple crowns waving in the wind, attracting fluttering butterflies. Picture fields of poppies, their delicate petals, a vivid splash of color, and wildflowers weaving through your garden, creating a tapestry of nature’s spontaneity.
These hardy plants thrive with minimal care, embodying the spirit of the wild. They’re perfect for adding a touch of wilderness to your landscape, inviting a diverse array of wildlife, and offering a burst of color that changes with the seasons. So, let’s embrace the wild side of gardening together, creating spaces that are not just visually stunning but also a haven for the local fauna. With these blooms, your garden will become a living painting, ever-changing and always enchanting.
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you’ve tuned in to the top 10 Garden Show with Garden expert Ken Lane join the conversation daily as he answers timely Garden questions email Kenna question directly from your phone to his desktop through the web at Waters Garden center.com that’s Waters with two T’s Garden center.com or visit face Toof face throughout the week where he can be found at Waters Garden Center in Prescot now welcome your host Ken Lane you know at the start of the show I’d mentioned herbs using fresh herbs already parsley’s already up Sage starting to grow chives are actively growing my boral’s already starting to show some new buds coming up mint underneath all that matted Brown material is starting to grow so so we’re starting to activate perennial herbs the things that come back year after year and most herbs at this elevation are perennial there’s a couple that aren’t I would say finnel really if that if the that heart the root of that plant freezes solid it can die back you have to replant it but finel is one of those cilantro although cilantro reced so easily and then basil all the rest of them your th lavender Rosemary um all these things they are all perennial mints it goes on and on and on uh French Teragon they all of these things are perennials they keep going right now we’ve got all of the Earth BBS the core herbs but as we get closer and closer to Mother’s Day that middle of May we’ll have every type of herb you could think from margam to I mean just everything’s going to be there from from medicinals to to edible to to culinary we’ll have them all and so it be in multiple varieties we won’t just have Sage we’ll have six varieties of sage from variegated to your traditional uh culinary All the Above so there’s a seasonality there’s a there’s a crop grow so we we actually have a 52- we calendar and we say oh when do we want the the cache pot you know containered tomatoes to be ready to go we’ve got Tomatoes now but they’re just a few varieties because it’s too early to plant them we have them in for those folks that love to plant early in a container and they put it in the garage at night and they roll it out during the day we’ve got tomatoes for those folks it’s not the largest variety the end of the month will be every variety every shape every heirlooms to traditionals to to everything in between and every size that’ll be in the end of April through May that’s the peak season but we’ve we’ve got a a grow calendar we go okay week number uh 23 we’re going to have this coming off out of the greenhouse so it’s all about crop rotations that is there’s only so much space on the farm you got to actually get the most out of bit going we can’t have lilacs all the time if we’re going to have lilacs let’s use this space and then we’ll use those and bring them into the garden center right now as we speak the best lilac varieties are right now and so you’ll get the most of them that when that’s when that space is freed up to the farm we put something in there right away I mean like like like the next day crews are in there plugging the next crop and so you’ll see this rotation coming through at the Garden Center over and over throughout the season that’s why it’s best not to just hit a garden center once in Spring and that’s it because you’ll just get that spring mix but you kind of want a Summer Mix in a Four Season climate you want some moms of autumn you want some echas cone flowers Mexican hats The Perennial selection of of the summer selection and then right now you’re getting that early spring season things that love the chilly nights but the this is when you see Linton Rose you won’t see or helbor you won’t see that any time any other time of year it’s just now you’re just seeing all those you know California poppies just came in this week they’re in full bloom they’re the time to go now you won’t see those in three four weeks so there’s a season there’s an EB and flow to things and so if you’re doing wild flowers I mentioned California poppies a classic wildf flower you should feel the urgency so wild flowers have germinated if you’re doing by seed and they are actively growing you still have I would say maybe two to three weeks left to be able to start wild flowers just naturally out in the yard spreading the seed watching them grow so I just put in a property I’m putting together out in Chino Val I just put I want to call it poppy seed Ranch so I just spread several thousand poppy seeds out there in the front front land it’s a two acre property put on the market here in a couple weeks or so and I just want those poppies to be growing and I think they’ll be in bloom about the time I put this thing up for sale it’s G to be fun to watch poppy seed Ranch it’s gonna be pretty so anyway just you can put that out there for about another two weeks and then it’s going to be too warm to start W flowers you’re gonna need to to to acclimate you’ll need to take those Wildflower seed and throw them in the freezer for a couple days and bring it back out put it back in for a couple days and by by May one that’s the process you have to do you can still have wild flowers but it’s so easy right now if you don’t want to start by seed I just don’t want to wait I want poppies now well then come in and buy the plant we’ve got them we started them two months ago and now they’re in bloom you’ve got candy tuft another native we started that two months ago actually last year and now they’re they’re in bloom so it’s a great little native white flowering Evergreen perennial you can start by plant and that’s a great way to go for smaller garden areas we’ve got a lot of flowers in stock right now but if you need large areas like I did the front acre in in California poppies not just in in Orange and yellows and reds and whites get it’s a beautiful mix it’s going to be glorious and’ll keep the weeds down be a lot going on for it uh there I wanted to start by seed because I needed so many plants but just a backyard container front entrance to your house start with plant you get more enjoyment and instantaneous uh starting now okay that’s it for this segment be right back with Lisa Waters Lane in in with her segment right after this Waters Garden companion plants of the month are lilac poppy purple plum and our white night candy T masses of fragrant white flowers cover mounds of perennial green foliage extreme heat and cold tolerant this award winner repeatedly blooms without deadheading for super easy care butterflies bees hummingbirds are going to love your backyard again white night candy tub can only be found at Waters Garden Center 1815 Iron Springs Road in presc the top 10 Gardener your source for timely Garden advice seasonally correct for the garden guaranteed to make a difference in your yard this season