Asters, black-eyed Susans, mums--are you tired of the same old autumn-blooming plants? Check out some of the more unusual ones growing in my garden. Maybe you'll find the perfect spot for one in your own garden. You'll never know unless you take a look!
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New Plants In My Garden: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day August 2016
August 15, 2016 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingI am happy to report that our area is no longer "abnormally dry." It is however, abnormally hot and humid. I have been moving plants in the cooler part of the day and keeping busy in the house the rest of the time. I'd thought I'd show you some highlights from August. I love them [...]
The Pleasures of Gardening: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day August 2015
August 16, 2015 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingI 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 [...]
Pink and Orange: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day August 2014
August 15, 2014 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingGreetings, cold climate gardeners! It's feeling autumnal around here, and starting to look it, too. The mid-August garden is a garden in transition. The early summer plants are looking shabby and the fall garden is just getting going. The beds that used to look so lush now have gaps in them because the Johnny-jump-ups have [...]
Frost Damage–or Disease?
May 6, 2008 – Posted in: Colchicums, Pests, Plagues, and VarmintsThese plants don't look too happy, but I'm not sure if it's the cold that put them in a snit, or a viral infection. Left to right: Daylily 2E, Colchicum giganteum, Daylily 4B, C. 'Harlequin,' Daylily 4C, C. speciousumAfter nearly two weeks of warm, frost-free weather in April, my garden got socked with a 22 [...]
Signs of Spring
April 11, 2006 – Posted in: Garden chores, What's up/bloomingThe Gardener in her Garden Here I am this past Sunday transplanting Lemon Lilies (Hemerocallis flava) from the back of the Birthday Garden to the front of it. They are a very old-fashioned daylily, but not as vigorous as the Tawny Daylily (H. fulva). Although they bloom early for a daylily, they are shorter than [...]
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