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I am creating an arboretum of my yard, that celebrates the best spectrum of cultivars I can discover. Once I have them growing happily (easier said than done, it's true, but I'm working on it), each is a surplus I have to share!
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Joined on June 30, 2020

Name: SkirtGardener

Location: Central Pennsylvania

USDA Zone: 5a

Interests: Home Landscaping, Propagation by Cloning, Writing, Sewing & related Arts, Profound Introspection...

Birthday: October 7

Thumbs-ups: 846 received, 483 given.

Items given special acorn tips: 3 received, 0 given.

Plant Database Contributions:

287 images

254 plants

17 data proposals

33 miscellaneous proposals

SkirtGardener's active areas of the database

Irises (22 contributions.)

Hostas (15 contributions.)

Rhododendrons (12 contributions.)

Gladiolus (11 contributions.)

SkirtGardener's Plant List
There are 1,497 plants in SkirtGardener's plant list.
Trees unsorted: 76 plants
Giant Trees (over 80'): 1 plant
Tall Trees (40-80'): 16 plants
Moderate Trees (20-40'): 81 plants
Short Trees (to 20'): 144 plants
Large Shrubs (8-12'): 248 plants
Medium Shrubs (4-7'): 252 plants
Low Shrubs (1-3'): 127 plants
Groundcovers (to 1'): 84 plants
Vines: 154 plants
Perennials: 360 plants
Annuals: 1 plant
Miniature size / Tiny leaf: 12 plants
Dwarf size / small leaf: 22 plants
Intermediate size / medium leaf: 18 plants
Tall or wide size / large leaf: 68 plants
Giant size / gigantic leaf: 1 plant
Deciduous: 49 plants
Semi-evergreen (leaves lost in colder zones): 3 plants
Evergreen: 285 plants
Columnar: 10 plants
Weeping: 35 plants
Uniquely colorful, peeling, or twisted form: 8 plants
Good candidate for living sculpture: 8 plants
Variegated: 148 plants
Non-green colorful leaf: 5 plants
Textured foliage: 5 plants
Dissected or cut-leaf foliage: 49 plants
Succulent: 5 plants
Edible Parts: 313 plants
Fruitless / Seedless: 66 plants
Doubled flower shape: 7 plants
Fragrant: 138 plants
Native to North America: 4 plants
Beneficial Companion Plant: 27 plants
Can take full shade: 17 plants
Part sun to part shade: 33 plants
Best in full sun: 31 plants
Can grow in wet places: boggy locations or with periodic flooding: 17 plants
Needs dryness and/or can handle drought: 8 plants
Salt tolerant: 5 plants
Tropical (z9+, grown indoors but may summer outdoors): 33 plants
Tender (z7-8, overwintered in unheated indoor spaces): 61 plants
Marginal (z6; may do fine planted outdoors in a carefully selected location): 91 plants
Hardy (z4-5; grows safely outside in my zone): 931 plants
Extra Hardy (z3 and below; best options for exposed areas): 370 plants
Winter Color: 42 plants
Spring Color: 810 plants
Summer Color: 388 plants
Fall Color: 197 plants
Suitable for the Green solid/textured/variegated theme garden: 2 plants
Suitable for the Multicolor (many colors in one) theme garden: 1 plant
Very Early Season Bloom: 25 plants
Early Season Bloom: 55 plants
Early-Mid Season Bloom: 46 plants
Midseason Bloom: 123 plants
Mid-Late Season Bloom: 54 plants
Late Season Bloom: 43 plants
Very Late Season Bloom: 17 plants
Reblooming or continuous bloom: 24 plants
Cool / dormant shipping season: 55 plants
Warm shipping season: 15 plants

SkirtGardener's Photo Contest Submissions

» The 2021 Garden.org Photo Contest: 42 entries
» The 2022 Garden.org Photo Contest : 7 entries

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