November started out marvelously with highs in the 50s(F) and one day even hit 66°(19C). The second week the switch flipped and the real November showed up with a vengeance. Most nights have been in the teens, but we also got two nights that dipped into single digits (9F=-13C)--that's unseasonably low for November and was [...]
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Garden Color In Dreary November: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day November 2015
November 15, 2015 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingI'm not going to pretend that November's garden looks as good as October's. I'm not even going to pretend that mid-November's garden looks as good as early November's.But I do want to celebrate the mild November we've been having. Yes, mild. Here in Cold Climate Land, it has actually been unseasonably warm. In fact, the [...]
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 [...]
Cottage Garden Discoveries
May 10, 2013 – Posted in: Plant info, Seeds and Seed StartingOne of the lovely things about gardening is that no matter how long (or short) you've been doing it, there's always so much more to learn and discover. Lately, I have been discovering "cottage gardening"--that serendipitous combination of flowers and vegetables and herbs, with the flowers being largely traditional and very fragrant. Last year was [...]
Not Dead Yet: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day 2012
October 16, 2012 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingJust as we did in October 2010, we skipped the early frosts of September and went straight to a hard freeze: 22F on October 13th. With a cold snap like that, you might think everything would be flattened. But you would be wrong. Gotta Love That Rose! First a tip of the hat to Rosa [...]
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day July 2010
July 20, 2010 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingFive days late. I considered skipping it this month. But participating in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day has allowed me to track changes in the garden, so I decided to post most tardily. Several plants that were blooming last year are done blooming already, such as cephalaria and pink foxglove. The tunic flower and perennial flax [...]
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 [...]
Black Plants: Book Review
February 9, 2010 – Posted in: Book reviews, Plant infoBlack Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden by Paul Bonine is the kind of book that drives me wild. Seventy-five gorgeous plants and over half of them are not hardy for me. Wait. Maybe it's just that half of the ones I want to grow aren't hardy for me. I actually didn't go through [...]
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2009
June 16, 2009 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingTo every plant, there is a season, and I find that pretty much the same plants are blooming that were blooming last year and the year before at this time. So even though I'm intoxicated with my peonies and wowed by my poppies, I'll use this post to showcase some of the other plants that [...]
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 [...]
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