Turn Your Black Thumb Green With A Gardening Workshop In Evans
If you’re like me and you love flowers but have limited success in growing them yourself, I have great news for you! Poppy Valley Farm in Evans is doing a…
I’ve had mixed results with my gardening efforts
Michelle MitchellIf you're like me and you love flowers but have limited success in growing them yourself, I have great news for you! Poppy Valley Farm in Evans is doing a gardening workshop this Saturday! The knowledge you can gain there will have you growing the most fabulous garden on the block.
Not Your Average Gardening Class
Poppy Valley Farm is a boutique mini flower farm in Evans. Owner Brittni Martin specializes in giving you a personalized approach to gardening. Likewise, even if you've never tried it before, you can learn the basics. Or if you've tried but had mixed results, Brittni can teach you some new approaches in the workshop.
Even experienced gardeners can learn how to maximize efforts into an amazing outdoor space with a personal garden design. At the workshop you can find the resources you need for beautiful blooms. Attendees will leave with a personal garden design or she can get you started with homesteading skills to provide food for your family. This is the perfect time of year to start planning!
Learn Your Landscape At The Gardening Workshop In Evans
Michelle MitchellSunflowers making a happy face
Some of the things that will be covered in the workshop will be learning how to read your landscape and regenerative gardening skills that can help relieve the stress of gardening. She can show you how to look at problems as opportunities and how to use the resources your land already provides you. Not only will Saturday's workshop help you bring it all into focus, but also you'll be able to finally accomplish your garden goals! You'll be able to increase the biodiversity of your space and learn how to garden with plants native to your property.
Overcome Your Black Thumb
Set up a time for Brittni to visit your property for a more personalized course. Schedule a one time visit or get support throughout the growing season. Take a tour of the farm and see all the things you learned in class being put into action.
Get registered for the workshop here. And learn how to turn your black thumb green this Saturday at Poppy Valley's Gardening Workshop in Evans.
5 Plants That Will Make Your Garden Smell
Plants don't always give off beautiful floral aromas, scents, and smells. There are plants that give off unpleasant smells that could stink up your garden. Most plants give off produce scents to lure in pollinators and repel predators.
Bees and butterflies are drawn to your garden by sweet scents from fragrant flowers. Plants with foul odors smell this way to attract flies and beetles which normally lay their eggs in feces and rotting materials.
With the gardening season around the corner, you may want to consider avoiding putting these plants in your garden.
Here are five plants that can smell up your garden.
Crown Imperial Plants
Getty ImagesThe flowers have a potent, musky scent almost like a skunk, which deters rodents and voles as well as squirrels and deer from the garden. Crown imperial plants are native to Asia and the Middle East. They come in These flowers come in shades of red, orange, and yellow.
Stinking Corpse Lily
Getty ImagesThe flower has a large central opening surrounded by petal-like structures and can grow huge, weighing up to 24 pounds. Also known as the rafflesia arnoldii, which smells and even looks like a rotting carcass.
Carrion Flower
Getty ImagesThese flowers are often pollinated by flies and other insects that are attracted to the smell of decay. The most common odors describe it as smelling like a rotting animal, a dead mouse, foul, and sulfur-like during flowering.
Skunk Cabbage
Getty ImagesSkunk Cabbages get their name from the fact they produce a smell of rotting meat or skunk when their leaves are bruised or crushed. While the smell may be unpleasant, the odor can help keep pests away and attract beneficial pollinators including bees and butterflies.
Corpse Flower
Getty ImagesThis flower is far from sweet. The United States Botanic Garden says its the worst-smelling flower in the world. Also known as the titan arum, some people compare its smell to a stinking corpse or rotting flesh.
