Catalogue descriptions for brand spanking new vegetation could seize our consideration, however often present little helpful details about how these up-and-coming cultivars will carry out in your backyard. Happily, comparative trials like these carried out at Chicago Botanic Backyard and Mt. Cuba Middle put vegetation to the check, side-by-side, below typical backyard circumstances. On this episode, Richard Hawke and Sam Hoadley delve into a couple of of the similarities and variations between their trial applications. They evaluate notes, commerce tales, and dispel a couple of misconceptions as they put together for the speak they may give on Thurday, March 6th, 2025 as a part of the Know to Develop lecture collection on the Philadelphia Flower Present.
Subject analysis is a core part of plant trials at Chicago Botanic Backyard. Picture courtesy of Chicago Botanic Backyard.
The trials at Mt. Cuba Middle in Hockessin, Delaware give attention to vegetation native to the Mid-Atlantic area. Within the trial backyard, workers and visiting gardeners alike can evaluate the flower colours, habits, and pollinator attraction of all kinds of cultivars, just like the array of bee balms proven right here.
The CBG Plant Analysis Program is likely one of the largest and most various within the nation. Picture courtesy of Chicago Botanic Backyard.
A latest sedge trial at Mt. Cuba Middle decided that a couple of cultivars are wonderful for turf grass substitute. Picture courtesy of Mt. Cuba Middle
A shade construction at Mt. Cuba Middle makes it attainable to develop vegetation that choose much less solar below exactly managed gentle circumstances.
