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During May and June, the horticulture staff did the planting of the annual beds and the mosaic cultures. Now that the planting is done our efforts will be on maintaining these areas. This will include lots of weeding and watering and some fertilizing.

We are also starting on some other projects. The stone wall by the Hobbit Hole is being prepped for a new planting of shrubs and ground covers. This has needed to be done for a long time but planting annuals was the first spring priority. You may have noticed the grass at the far end of the walking trail is turning brown. This is going to be our new pollinator area. We plan on being able to seed this area this fall. 

Speaking of pollinators, I was asked yesterday about the name of a plant. It was a lower-growing shrub that was covered with yellow flowers. The yellow flowers were covered with bees, good forage for the bees this time of year and a good addition to any shrub border or cottage garden.