Tunnell Vision- April 2020

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Join us on Facebook from 12:00 to 1:15 on Sunday for Brunch For Beebe! Captain Mike will be returning live on our Facebook page playing your favorite music! We can all enjoy live music and still practice social distancing while helping raise money to help fight COVID-19.

A direct Venmo link will be available, with ALL proceeds going directly to Beebe's COVID-19 Fund! Specials are featured below:

Choice 1- $10.99 Brunch
Bacon egg and cheese or sausage egg and cheese on a homemade buttermilk biscuit accompanied by an orange or grapefruit crush or Bloody Mary (Pick either a crush or Bloody Mary, 1 drink per brunch special)
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Choice 2- $10.99 Brunch
Chicken & Waffle sandwich. accompanied by an orange or grapefruit crush or Bloody Mary (Pick either a crush or Bloody Mary, 1 drink per brunch special)
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302-945-0500 / Curbside Pickup / ID required for specials featuring alcohol
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The Crushes and Bloody Mary are ONLY AVAILABLE Sunday for the Brunch For Beebe event, not before.

This will only be on our Facebook page, no one is allowed in the pub besides employees working.
 

In these trying times, Paradise Grill has been working diligently to support the Paradise staff who is currently out of work or on reduced hours. 

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Please contact the Baywood Greens Pro-Shop at 302-947-9800 for hours. 

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So, What is a native plant? For me, a native plant is a plant that occurs naturally in the place where it evolved. 

1. Itea virginica or Virginia sweetspire  - a mound shaped deciduous shrub that grows up to 8’ tall.  Small, white flowers bloom in 4-inch spires that droop with the arching branches in late spring to early summer.  The flowers open from base to tip, so it appears to bloom for quite a long time.  And the leaves turn from a nice green color to reds and purples in the fall and hold on the plant for a good amount of time.  It’s best used in mass.

Itea virginica has more than a few cultivars, usually about fall color and overall size of the plant.  It’s a great plant for a lot of different places.  It will tolerate shade, even heavy shade, and can tolerate drier areas as well but really loves a good amount of sun and water.  If it’s planted in a spot with even moisture, it can thrive.  There aren't too many pest to be concerned about, however, we have had a problem with Japanese Maple Scale on this plant.  You may find some holes in the leaves from time to time but nothing that will kill the plant.  If you have this plant and it looks really rough by the end of the season, the problem is probably cultural, and the plants are stressed out.  These plants do better if the soil pH is more on the acidic side.
 

Beds in between the drive and the home are an example, or it can be grown in a larger space in the landscape on its own. There are many cultivars that range from less than 3’ tall to its full size.  It has spike-like, upright clusters of fragrant white flowers in late summer when the need for flowers is at its highest.  The dense, narrow, cylindric flower spikes are often clustered together at branch ends and are followed by brown capsules which persist through winter.  The shrub has simple, oval, toothed leaves which turn dull yellow to orange in fall and provides, in my opinion, a great show.  

This shrub is remarkably free of any disease, insect, or physiological problems. Its dry fruiting capsules remain long after flowering and help identify this plant in winter.  It can be found growing naturally in most of our communities.

Because of the two different species, Major and Gardenia, they do naturally occur in different regions of our country.  Fothergilla Major, called Large or Mountain Fothergilla, comes from higher elevations in the mountains of southeastern United States.  Fothergilla Gardenia, called Dwarf or Coastal Fothergilla, is restricted to the coastal plain of the southeastern United States.  All three plants will grow here, however, the hybrid intermedia and the Coastal Fothergilla I found to be better growers for us. 

Coastal Fothergilla is a small, mound-shaped shrub to 3 ft. tall with crooked, multiple stems. The flower,appearing as a mass of stamens, is white and occurs in spring before the leaves appear in thimble-like terminal spikes. Dense, dark green, leathery foliage becomes bright yellow to scarlet-red in fall.  This plant likes sun to part shade, a soil pH that is slightly acidic, and one that is welldrained.  It is very disease and insect resistant and fits well in a woodland garden of azaleas and rhododendrons.  It does not like very dry sites.

To get the best floral and fall foliage display, give Fothergillas as much sunshine as possible.