I have been spending every free minute gardening this season and enjoying myself thoroughly. I focused first on getting all plants into the ground as soon as I acquired them, and then switched to weeding. Only another gardener could understand the pleasure to be had from setting a bed to rights, especially if the soil [...]
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Book Giveaway! The Right-Size Flower Garden: Design Solutions for (almost) Auto-Pilot Gardens
February 11, 2015 – Posted in: DesignWe’re busy, we’re aging, but we love gardening! Are you swamped with a job and family; or an over-50 gardener that doesn’t move at the same pace; or a city dweller with a passion for plants but little space to work with? I bet you fall into one of the above scenarios. I fit two [...]
The Garden Has Arrived: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day June 2014
June 17, 2014 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingMy patience has been rewarded. The days of staring at mostly-bare-dirt beds with puny divisions of shrubs and perennials are over. The beds that I created the soonest after we moved in have now filled in. Granted, there are a lot of self-sowers filling in the gaps, but give me a viola over a dandelion [...]
Plants That Make Me Happy: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2014
May 16, 2014 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingI have to agree with Donna Donabella that "the majority of flowers blooming are those usually seen at the end of April, not the middle of May." But it's weirder than that. Because after a very cold, excruciatingly slow spring, we suddenly got very warm weather, which speeded everything up. Consequently, on a drive through [...]
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May 2010
May 15, 2010 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingIt always seems like there is nothing blooming in mid-May, but when I really look around, I realize there is a lot blooming but none of it is flashy, like the big yellow sheets of daffodils previous or the three Grandes Dames of June that will soon be here. The blooms of mid-May are modest [...]
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2009
May 16, 2009 – Posted in: Native/Invasive, What's up/bloomingSpring has finally arrived at Purdville. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost some of my photo gallery features when I switched to this new design. You can click on each thumbnail for a larger image, but then you have to use your browser's Back button to get back to the thumbnails. Also blooming: Creeping phlox [...]
Green and white: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2008
May 15, 2008 – Posted in: MiscellaneousVariegated bulbous oat grass, sweet white violet, and a bit of 'White Nancy' lamium in the lower left cornerBecause of the warm April, a lot of the daffodils that were still blooming last year are done for this year. This is the "gap" time between the early blooming spring flowers and the big June extravaganza [...]
Santa came today
May 4, 2005 – Posted in: AcquisitionsOkay, it wasn't really Santa Claus. It was just the mail lady and the UPS man, bringing my two plant orders of the season on the same day. But I felt the same excitement I had felt as a kid on Christmas morning as I made my way down the stairs, wondering if Santa had [...]
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