SixOnSaturday October 24th. Natives

Six garden-y things on a Saturday. Visit the comments section of the host’s blog – http://www.thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com for more sixes worldwide.

For my six this week I am looking at some commonly used ‘natives’.

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1. Fothergilla gardenii. I love the way this shrub carries red, gold, green and purple leaves together. It is easy to propagate from the many suckers it puts up around the main stem.

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2.Montauk Daisy, the last to flower, is also easy to propagate from cuttings.

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3. Bayberry, whose berries were traditionally used for making scented candles. It’s a nice tidy evergreen shrub, but mine have taken years to begin setting fruit.

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4.Kousa Dogwood. I’m not sure this is a native but it is certainly ubiquitous.

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5. The native bees are still working the Cosmos

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_{6. And the yellow Calendula. I almost never see honey bees here but the many bumblers and solitary bees, wasps and hoverflies take care of our pollination needs.}

Have a wonderful gardening week.