From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Gardening Explained. On Film.

October 29, 2006

News flash: There is a snowdrop that blooms in the fall, Galanthus reginae-olgae, Queen Olga’s snowdrop. Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck, in the most excellent A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden, confirm that
It does indeed bloom in the snow, the first snow, which generally comes about the last week in [...]

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There’s a Map for It

October 27, 2006

Got this email today:
About 6 months ago, Mapmuse.com began a project- the interactive mapping of garden centers and nurseries across the US. We initially researched and populated these maps ourselves, with the idea in mind that the public would subsequently add to, and enhance, the information we provided. We mapped each garden center or nursery, [...]

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Fall Perennials

October 24, 2006

Tick-tock, winter is coming. I was greeted at dawn with a few hours of light snow this morning. It melted as it landed, not like the snows that have recently visited Watertown and plagued Buffalo. It is a warning that fall is at a close and winter is coming. I spent this past weekend digging [...]

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Earth-sheltered Greenhouse

October 23, 2006

Here are plans to make an Earth-sheltered Greenhouse from a man in Idaho. He actually built it into the side of a hill to help moderate the temperatures inside. It looks like he dug it all out by hand. (Click on Image Gallery for close-ups.) He must have wanted vegetables badly! I’m pretty sure if [...]

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Kathy’s Autumn Picture Show

October 21, 2006

Sunday, October 8th, was a gorgeous autumn day, sunny and warm. I decided to go up the hill for a walk in the woods, camera in hand, and you get to share the results. (Be forewarned: this is an even longer than usual post.) But first, a little bit about where we’re going. Our family [...]

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Gardening Group at LibraryThing

October 19, 2006

If you’re the type of person who pays attention to sidebars, you probably already know that I’m a member of LibraryThing. (Hint: it’s a section called My Bookshelf, and it’s only on the sidebars I thought most appropriate.) Over the summer, LibraryThing started a new aspect to their site called “Groups”, which I didn’t discover [...]

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Blogging and Copyright Protection series by Lorelle

October 15, 2006

Several weeks ago on Garden Rant there was a small storm of indignation regarding the attitude expressed at a garden writers convention that what bloggers write was free for the taking without attribution. Most bloggers are flattered to be quoted, but instances of entire posts being republished somewhere else without permission, or even acknowledgment, are [...]

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Pretty in Pink?

October 11, 2006
Colchicum Lilac Wonder

This is a section of the Birthday Garden, which is a somewhat raised bed sandwiched between the driveway and the house. At the base of the stone wall, looking rather pale, are some Colchicum byzantinum. Above them is an unknown chrysanthemum, which Debi Lampman of Bedlam Gardens in King Ferry, NY gave to me this [...]

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Tulips or Not Tulips: That is the Question

October 8, 2006

Every fall gardeners buy tulips, and every spring I read blog posts complaining about tulips. Part of the problem, I think, is that many people assume that since they are sold at the same time as daffodils and bloom about the same time, that they behave the same in the garden. But they actually don’t [...]

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Last Call for Annuals

October 6, 2006

We’re in the midst of the last warm days of fall giving way to cool and colder weather. Light and medium frosts have been visiting with hard frosts soon to follow. It’s interesting to see how the plants in the garden respond to the weather. Placement and severity of frost have brought an interesting – [...]

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Garden Bloggers’ Book Club

October 4, 2006

Carol of May Dreams Gardens is proposing a Garden Bloggers’ Book Club for this winter. Quite a few people have signed on, and I’m adding my name to the list. Currently Carol is still soliciting suggestions for which books to read. Frankly, there have been so many good suggestions that I don’t know how she’ll [...]

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Help from Minnesota

October 4, 2006

The latest edition of Yard & Garden Line News, put out by the University of Minnesota Extension Service, is so full of handy information I’m tempted to quote the whole thing.
First, there’s a thought-provoking article on whether or not to wrap young trees to prevent sun scald. As with so many recommended practices in [...]

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By the way, change my feed in your feed reader

October 1, 2006

Would all of you long-time subscribers to my feed please change it to my new feedburner feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ColdClimateGardening . This will enable me to keep better statistics on who is using a feed to keep in touch and even add more functionality to it in the future.
Thanks, I appreciate it.

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