More on Catalogs
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
I know, I probably missed some of your favorites. If you have a perennial that you love that begins with a letter from a-g, I apologize. My fingers get tired. Your turn to write about it.
1. But Holy Cow (as Harry Carey would say), I forgot Butt...
1. But Holy Cow (as Harry Carey would say), I forgot Butt...
Reading Catalogs
posted about 1 year ago | 1 comment
Reading the Catalogs: Part I, Perennials
Now that the holidays are over, it's time for gardeners to indulge ourselves – in catalogs! I'm going to treat myself (and, I hope, you) by paging 'out loud' through some new catalogs: perennials this time...
Now that the holidays are over, it's time for gardeners to indulge ourselves – in catalogs! I'm going to treat myself (and, I hope, you) by paging 'out loud' through some new catalogs: perennials this time...
Make Your Own Winter Arrangements
posted about 1 year ago, updated 5 minutes later | 0 comments
If you have pots that in warmer times are filled with annuals, now's a great moment to put together a display of winter greens. These offer something cheery to look at out your window, and they make good presents from the gardener as well. (Those ...
My Favorite (Design) Books
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
I was so glad Idamay invited everyone to share favorite books. That generated a great list of hints for holiday presents. Today I'm going to write a bit about some of my rave fave design books. My guess is that even if you know a lot about plants,...
My Favorite (Plant) Books
posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
My Favorite Plant Books
As I've been looking over recent messages, it occurred to me that everyone – ok, every gardener - needs a good library of reference and inspiration books. So in the run-up to the holiday season, aka the festival of consum...
As I've been looking over recent messages, it occurred to me that everyone – ok, every gardener - needs a good library of reference and inspiration books. So in the run-up to the holiday season, aka the festival of consum...
Why Garden?
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
Two blogs ago I was making the point that thousands of years in the past when the first people to develop pleasure gardens were organizing space, they built walls to keep out wilderness. They needed to wall out predators and marauders; their litt...
More bulbs
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
It's still not too late to plant bulbs, so here are some suggestions for tulips, and also for some specialty bulbs.
Tulips are notoriously short lived, especially the Triumph and Darwin hybrids, but what are called species tulips can be quite har...
Tulips are notoriously short lived, especially the Triumph and Darwin hybrids, but what are called species tulips can be quite har...
Gardens and Nature
posted over 2 years ago | 3 comments
I've just come back from a week in South Carolina where I was helping my daughter collect data for her PhD dissertation. She's studying ecology, and her dissertation involves looking at a species of blueberry that grows naturally both in bottomlan...
Spring-flowering Bulbs
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
The weather here is getting cooler, and that reminds me that it's time to order bulbs to plant this fall so that next spring will come in with a big smile.
Here’s one area where on line shopping is a great idea. The online catalogues give you go...
Here’s one area where on line shopping is a great idea. The online catalogues give you go...
The Inventory Continued
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
Shoulda done this last week. Shoulda shoulda shoulda. Oh well: I will not should on myself today.
So: to continue the late summer inventory (which really will help next year if I remember to look at it):
1. Where are the holes in the garden? I'm...
So: to continue the late summer inventory (which really will help next year if I remember to look at it):
1. Where are the holes in the garden? I'm...
