alexandriapalonia

Today, Dd spent the morning collecting leaves and bark and twigs and
foilage. She wanted to know what the different trees in our yard
were, so we went down to the library and got a few identifier books
for our area, and spent the afternoon pouring over, trying to
determine which trees were which.

She wants to do flowers and bushes (shrubs?) next. I think we can do
the shrubbery, but the flowers may have to wait until spring. (Or--I
just had this idea--we may go to a nursery--I'll have to see what she
thinks of that).
Alex

Deb Lewis

***She wants to do flowers and bushes (shrubs?) next. I think we can do
the shrubbery, but the flowers may have to wait until spring. (Or--I
just had this idea--we may go to a nursery--I'll have to see what she
thinks of that).***

You could look at gardening books too. It's harder to identify a
specimen from those artsy photographs but it might be fun. Flower design
books might be fun to look at too.

There might be a garden club in your area that has free information or a
little library they'd let you peek through.

Your county extension agent and your local Forest Service office will
have pamphlets and brochures about native trees and bushes and
wildflowers and noxious weeds in your area. The county extension agent
can answer a lot of questions too or identify a specimen for you and they
sometime have brochures about garden/landscape plants that do well
locally - that might lead you to on-line pictures from which you could
identify your garden flowers. An on-line search for annuals or
perennials for your location might get you some good pictures.

I envy you living where nurseries are still open! Around here they all
shut down in the fall and we are greenless until spring.<g>

Deb L