For anyone interested in native plants, Delaware’s Mount Cuba Center is a fabulous resource. I’ve been wanting to take courses there, but distance and schedules have just not allowed it. So I was happy to learn that Mount Cuba has launched a series of online courses designed to share their wonderful education resources with audiences everywhere. Mount Cuba Center Connect, the online education portal, describes itself as a “virtual garden of eastern North American native plants.”A
My first online course, Moss Gardening, examines the variety of moss textures, describes landscape uses for moss and explains how to establish a moss garden. This course will serve as a perfect complement to my next large-scale garden project – restoring the woodland border on the north side of my yard. I dive in to the material tonight.
Here’s to the start of a new adventure!
[…] including Sedum Ternatum (which, coincidentally is recommended by Mount Cuba Center in my moss gardening course). My 'rare finds:' Rhododendron minus v. carolinus; Amelanchier grandiflora 'Princess Diana' […]
[…] Yesterday was perhaps my third or fourth trip to RareFind. My goal was to select trees and shrubs for my Woodland Border restoration project. Following Ann Lovejoy’s ‘Golden Bowl’ approach, I selected ‘Princess Diana’ amelanchier grandiflora trees for the large understory, and some Rhododendron minus v. carolianus shrubs for the small understory. (I’m going to underplant the rhododendrons with a few Coast Leucothoe that I picked up locally last week). I also selected a beautiful Cornus Alternifolia (Pagoda Dogwood) to anchor the streamside border. Even as a young tree, the dogwood has gorgeous, purplish bark and a graceful sympodial branch structure. Finally, I picked up a few perennials including Sedum Ternatum (which, coincidentally is recommended by Mount Cuba Center in my moss gardening course). […]