Handouts & Downloads
Handouts/Downloads:
Gardening with a Y from The National Hardware Show, Las Vegas
Presentations from the Baker Creek Spring Festival
Presentations from the Garden Center Association of Kansas City
Zoneworthy
I’ve provided a copy of the most recent edition of my Zoneworthy lecture below. Feel free to browse through it, take notes, and most importantly email me if you have any questions about how you can use these admittedly underused plants in your gardens or landscapes. You can download a slidelist ( Zoneworthy handout (123) ) to follow along with.
I also promised some links to my favorite and trusted sources of unusual plants. If you still have trouble finding something, drop me an email and I’ll help you find it. Here are a few you can’t miss (listed in no particular order and grouped by local, Midwestern and mail-order):
Local, Midwestern nurseries:
Willowglen Nursery (the well-known Decorah, Iowa based nursery run by the superb husband-wife duo of Lee and Lindsay Lee)
The Perennial Flower Farm (very small specialty nursery in rural northeast Iowa run by plant gurus Steve and Caroline Bertrand)
The Flower Factory (easily more perennials in one place than you could dream of, over 4,000 different perennials on-sale, tremendous)
Northwind Perennial Farm (home of plant whisperer Roy Diblik and a perfect collection of Zoneworthy plants)
Mail-order nurseries:
Seneca Hill Perennials (rare, unusual perennials, vines, and shrubs; specialties include Primula, Arisaema)
Plant Delights Nursery (the reigning champ when it comes to awesome, tested plants for gardens everywhere)
Annie’s Annuals (quirky, hip collection of fun annuals, perennials, and biennials)
Arrowhead Alpines (my absolute favorite catalog in the whole plant world; witty, irreverent, funny and GREAT plants)
Laporte Avenue Nursery (excellent supplier of plants for rock, scree, saxatile and trough gardens)
Gardens North (a Canadian seedhouse with a unique offering of species from around the world)
Brent & Becky’s Bulbs (a delightful and ever-increasing offering of bulbous plants from the two top U.S. bulb experts)
Odyssey Bulbs (another believer in the value of underused bulbs, great availability)
Lazy S’S Farm Nursery (a crazy offering of all sorts of rare, unusual perennials, trees, shrubs, etc. Lots of goodies.)
Okay I’ll stop, but you get the point! I could keep going, but these are places I’ve ordered from recently and for many seasons. You can’t go wrong with these plantsmen and plantswomen.
