Shamrocks For The Home Landscape

» Barbara Nicholson Bell - An outstanding article!

Georgene, you have once again provided us an article that's a benchmark of the Suite. Not only is it extremely well written, but it is packed full of information, accompanied by photo and graphic, and provides us with other sources for follow up. Then, as icing on the cake, you direct us to other Suite articles on similar topics, thus promoting and encouraging us to visit around the site.

Way to go, girl!

-- posted by Barbara Nicholson Bell

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» Georgene A. Bramlage - Re: An outstanding article!

In response to message posted by bici:

Barbara,

Thanks so much for your kind words! The idea for that article had been percolating in the Suite article area of my brain ever since I bought the book.

And, seriously, though I knew the benefits of white Dutch clover in a lawn, I'd never before connected that plant with a shamrock

So, we really should applaud Nelson, a curious scientist with one foot firmly in the areas of arts and literature.

As a collector, you would love this book! It is, as I said, chuck full of B&W photos of almost anything that anyone could possibly decorate with a shamrock :+)

Gerogene

-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage

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» jerrib - Could have fooled me!

I didn't know that about the shamrock. Thanks for the enlightenment!

-- posted by jerrib

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» Georgene A. Bramlage - Re: Could have fooled me!

In response to message posted by jerrib:

Jerri,

Could have fooled me also...and that's why I found the book so fascinating.

A few old timers in my town told me ages ago about how good the Dutch white clover was for lawns, but it wasn't until I read about the experiment detailed in the book that I could make the connection

-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage

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» Kirk_Johnson - Re: Re: Could have fooled me!

In response to message posted by Cercis:

My lawn areas are more clover than grass. I actually sowed them with clover. Summers on the southern Oregon coast are cool but dry and our afternoon breezes really dry out grass. We get 30 mile an hour "breezes" on most summer afternoons. Clover is much easier to keep green.

I just can't use selective weedkillers on my lawn areas. It was products like "Weed and Feed" which ended the practice of including clover seed in lawn seed.

-- posted by Kirk_Johnson

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» Georgene A. Bramlage - Re: Re: Re: Could have fooled me!

In response to message posted by Kirk_Johnson:

Kirk,

Right you are...glad to have a living testimonial and know that there are gardners out there who still have clover lawns

I did mention, I believe, in the article that clover in the lawn is possible only if broad-leaf weedkillers such as in Weed and Feed are foresaken.

Glad you dropped by to read the article and comment

Georgene

-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage

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