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Seeing Beauty in Native Plants – A feature in Senior Life

M. Alejandro Soto

I love being a steward of nature and consider it my life’s work, … Creating beauty and providing food plus habitat for native insects and birds is wonderful.”

Judith Nastally, Senior Life, April 2017

The April 2017 issue of the Senior Life Newspaper featured an article about Judith covering her start into gardening, her experience in the landscaping industry and some more points on getting to know what she’s all about. Here’s an excerpt from that article!

Being a vital part of the outdoors is what gets Judith Nastally’s pulse racing, especially in the warmer months of the year…

Nastally, who has her own gardening and landscaping business, J. Lynne Associates, is a Carroll High School graduate and possesses an associate degree of science in design from Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. “

Senior Life, April 2017

Check out the link below to find the April 2017 edition of Senior Life and read the full article about Judith and her work with J. Lynne Associates!

Click Here to read the full article.

My 10 years in the retail nursery business alongside my co-workers also provided me with valuable insight. Also, container gardening with native perennials is new, and we are happy to be leading the trend.”


Senior Life, April 2017
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2018 Perennial Plant of the Year; Allium ‘Millenium’

M. Alejandro Soto

At the beginning of each growing season the Perennial Plant Association announces its perennial plant of the year and this year that plant is the Allium ‘Millenium’. This beautiful ornamental  plants is a member of the onion family and they spring up with green foliage in the early part of the year and finish with gorgeous rose-purple spherical blooms at the end of 2-3 foot stalks. The Allium ‘Millenium’ blooms when many other plants start to die back making this a great plant to add to a garden to ensure full season color and appeal.

Photo by Mark McDonough.

This cultivar was created by Mark McDonough, a horticultural researcher from Massachusets, through multigenerational breeding involving Allium nutans and A. lusitanicum (formerly Allium senescens ssp montanum). He introduced the Allium ‘Millenium’ in 2000 through Plant Delights Nursery and has received wildly positive reviews in the almost two decades since its introduction. As a hearty and tough plant, the Allium ‘Millenium’ makes a wonderful player in a well balanced ornamental garden or landscaping bed. Contact us and ask about putting this beautiful perennial of the year in your home or business landscape!

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‘Native Friendly Trees, Shrubs & Perennials’ Presentation at Sophia’s Portico

M. Alejandro Soto

This month Judith will be giving a presentation at Fort Wayne’s Sophia’s Portico on the use of native plants in gardens. This program will briefly touch on the origin of ideas about gardens which come mainly from Europe. You will learn how to help our environment with native plants and will be enticed to plant these wonderfully effective, functional members of our region. Come discover the interactions between plants and insects which hold keys to supporting our pollinators. Fall is a great time to learn how to be apart of this environmentally friendly growing trend.

The presentation costs $15 to attend and will be held on October 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

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Fort Wayne Home & Garden Show Presentation

M. Alejandro Soto

This Friday Judith will be giving a presentation at the Fort Wayne Home & Garden Show on Container Gardens with Native Plants. She is encouraging everyone to plant native, mostly perennial plants in containers regardless of where they may live. This helps to provide food and habitats for our native pollinators, which are declining. It saves money when you plant once and don’t have to plant annuals. Native plants are very hardy and usually do well with little care except for watering at first to establish a strong root system.

Visit the show and check out this increasingly informative presentation on working with the plants that naturally grow in the area that we live in.

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Features in The Waynedale News

M. Alejandro Soto

The work of J. Lynne Associates has been written about in the Waynedale news not once but twice now! Click on one of the images below to read what others are saying about us. We owe a huge thank you to the Waynedale news for featuring us as well!

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Judith with Jane in her front yard planting bed.

Here’s what Judith said about Jane’s project; “It was a wonderful project, creating a beautiful and and sustainable garden for Jane. She encouraged me to install as many native perennials as possible to fit her space, design, and budget. Jane’s quote explains her reason for going native is “I just believe it should be natural. They’re hardy, they’re natural, and I really like the way it turned out.”

About the Prairie Preservation Project Judith says “It was a pleasure working with Eddie and Nan Coble on designing a native plant display perennial garden. We walked and measured the

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Judith, Nan, and Eddie in front of the Prairie as it’s being seeded.

property and talked about ways to discourage small animals from eating the new plants. We planned on successive flowering during the season with small grasses adding height and drama. We also included nectar plants to help the bees find food and produce honey.”