Tue
May
31
Generous Earth Gardens
email me at: jocelyn@generousearthgardens.com
Jocelyn Jones is the principal and owner of Generous Earth Gardens working as a landscape designer and organic gardening consultant. This life-long gardener is an individual who has passion for plant health care along with an eye for creating the most unique landscape designs.
Landscape design today integrates a wide variety of elements to achieve functional and beautiful spaces for outdoor living. As a designer and horticulturalist, Jocelyn offers a broad range of planning, installing, maintenance and design services tailored to a spectrum of client needs.
Jocelyn’s professional training from Harvard’s Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum, Master Gardener of Massachusetts Horticultural Society and continuing education seminars have fueled her passion for gardening and design. Her dedication to organic gardening, along with her passion for art and a knowledge of landscaping has led to her growing success.
CERTIFICATIONS:
Harvard University at Arnold Arboretum
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
MEMBERSHIPS:
National Plan diagnostic Network - First detector
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Home composting coordinator
Somerville Gardening Club
ElA, Ecological Landscape Association
NOFA
American Confier Society
Jocelyn Jones is the principal and owner of Generous Earth Gardens working as a landscape designer and organic gardening consultant. This life-long gardener is an individual who has passion for plant health care along with an eye for creating the most unique landscape designs.
Landscape design today integrates a wide variety of elements to achieve functional and beautiful spaces for outdoor living. As a designer and horticulturalist, Jocelyn offers a broad range of planning, installing, maintenance and design services tailored to a spectrum of client needs.
Jocelyn’s professional training from Harvard’s Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum, Master Gardener of Massachusetts Horticultural Society and continuing education seminars have fueled her passion for gardening and design. Her dedication to organic gardening, along with her passion for art and a knowledge of landscaping has led to her growing success.
CERTIFICATIONS:
Harvard University at Arnold Arboretum
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
MEMBERSHIPS:
National Plan diagnostic Network - First detector
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Home composting coordinator
Somerville Gardening Club
ElA, Ecological Landscape Association
NOFA
American Confier Society
Tue
May
17
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The Monstrosity of Winter Moth
Spring has sprung and you have started your garden inventory. While looking at your trees and woody shrubs you may have noticed many have been devastated by some kind of atrocious intruder. The Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata) is to blame. In most cases you’ve seen your prized apple, crabapples, blueberries, and cherries (to name a few), have been ravished by this creature, causing leaves to be mostly defoliated or eaten by this insatiable pest. These pests have metamorphosized into the catapilar stage, allowing us to see these creatures hanging down from silky threads, getting in our way and making it known that they have just feasted on our precious plants.
“The tiny (less than 1 mm) caterpillars then spin a small silk strand and become air-buoyant and are carried upwards on air currents into the tree canopy where they then try to “weasel” between the bud scales, bracts, etc. to get into the buds. They do not chew their way in via an entrance hole. If buds are not yet swollen enough for them to gain access, these small larvae will then spin down from the tree on a silken thread and be carried away by the wind, which is a dispersal process known as ballooning.” ) http://www.umassgreeninfo.org/fact_sheets/defoliators/wm_id_man.html).
The result? Leaves bud out, covered with holes and mostly defoilated.
What to do? More to follow….
Sat
May
14
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