In the Garden: Jacobus makes most of landscape
My featured gardener for August is Rose Jacobus. And with her first name, is it any wonder she excels at gardening?
She and her husband LeRoy live on 10 acres in southwest Spokane County. Of those 10 acres, one acre is landscaped. Jacobus is the main gardener although she reveals that “the lawn is LeRoy’s baby.”
A Master Gardener and retired nurse, she has been gardening for more than 60 years.
“When I was a youngster, we always had a huge garden,” Jacobus explains. “My responsibility was to ride the horse while my dad used the cultivator. I was in 4-H and my area was gardening.”
While strolling through her garden on a recent summer day, I enjoyed exploring the many attractive plantings.
She has a “moon garden” which is in the shape of a crescent moon and planted with white-flowering plants: petunias, alyssum, cosmos, foxgloves, roses, hydrangeas, candytufts, Shasta daisies, geraniums, lilies, nicotiana, hollyhocks, daylilies and marigolds.
Moon gardens get their name because they are planted with white flowers that stand out in the moonlight.
Jacobus’ knot garden includes quadrants of blue lobelias, geraniums, miniature willows and groundcover roses, with a center of creeping thyme.
Peonies are a favorite, and she admits to having more than 90 of them.
“I have bought most of them from the mail-order company Gilbert H. Wild and Son (www.gilberthwild.com),” she says. “They sell them for $7 to $10 each, which is a good buy.”
Jacobus particularly excels at plant propagation, both from cuttings and seeds. In addition to doing most of the rose propagation for Northland Rosarium, it’s an enjoyable and economical way to expand her flower beds.
“I don’t think people realize the potential of what you can grow from seed,” she says. “I have started roses, geraniums, clematis and all sorts of annuals and perennials from seed for my garden and to share with friends.
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She has a “moon garden” which is in the shape of a crescent moon and planted with white-flowering plants: petunias, alyssum, cosmos, foxgloves, roses, hydrangeas, candytufts, Shasta daisies, geraniums, lilies, nicotiana, hollyhocks, daylilies and
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