Part 1: An Awesome Summer in PA

By: Kim Charles

Kevin Kelly ’s awarding winning pollinator garden , is chock full of so many enthral , we will be featuring his garden in two parts … enjoy !

" Good morning , fellow GPODers . This yr has been an awesome horticulture year in key PA ( zone 6b ) . We had an early spring , followed by cool weather well into June . summertime has been affectionate , but not oppressive . Only 2 heat waves in the 90 ’s , but more significantly , we have been contract 1 - 2 inches of rain per week throughout the summertime . I have persist in packing my garden in with plants , adding another 8 conifers , 2 Japanese maple , and over 100 new perennial . I now have 152 conifer on the property .

My garden is just over 20 age old . It was a complete blank slate when I began . I am in a suburban ontogeny in Harrisburg , with just under 1/2 Accho . My garden is a PA Master Gardener Certified Pollinator Garden , and last year I won the Blue Ribbon Award from the PA Hort Society Garden Contest . I stopped using any weedkiller or insecticides about 10 years ago , and bank solely on leaf compost as a fertilizer ( except for the annuals , where I use fish fertilizer ) .

I am the designer ( for unspoilt or bad ) , digger , weed-whacker , and all else . After all these years , I could never get my wife to be interested in horticulture ( she just enjoys the perspective ) . I just lost 3 tree diagram this spring , 2 Pyrus calleryana ‘ Cleveland Select ’ , and 1 Prunus subhirtella‘Autumnalis’ . All 3 were implant the first yr of the garden . I am happy about the red of the Cleveland Select Pears , as I planted them when I did n’t know better . They are coming down next month , and will be substitute by Nyssa sylvatica ‘ Tupelo Towers’and Heptacodium miconioides . The Cherry will be replaced by Cornus mommy . I am excited about the unexampled trees . "

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Part 2: An Awesome Summer in PA

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