Poppies, peonies, and iris: the three Grandes Dames of June In a cold climate, the gardening season is shorter and more compressed. By the time the spring flowers get going, boom! it's summer. Consider this: on May 29th we had our last frost. The next day it hit 80F (27C), which we reckon to be [...]
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Seven Gardening Gifts No One Will Give Me
May 9, 2008 – Posted in: Tools and EquipmentMother's Day is fast approaching, and many retailers who normally don't feature gardening products have potted flowering plants and other quasi-gardening gifts prominently displayed. I thought I'd take the opposite tack and share with you my favorite non-gardening garden "thingies." Most of them don't qualify as tools. Some of them, quite frankly, would look like [...]
Poppy Seed Queens
January 20, 2008 – Posted in: Seeds and Seed StartingJust about half a year ago, I was lamenting the loss of my favorite pink peony poppy. Thanks to one of my readers, I learned that these beauties are being sold on eBay. EBay! I had known that seeds and plants were sold on eBay, but had never thought to look myself. Julie Calhoun and [...]
Peony poppies
July 31, 2007 – Posted in: Plant infoOf all the species in the Papaver genus, I think I like peony poppies the best. Perhaps you know them by a different name, for they are also called lettuce leaf poppies, bread seed poppies, and opium poppies. Yes, that opium. I was just reading about them on Wikipedia and discovered they have sub-groups. I [...]
A Few of My Favorite Things
July 18, 2006 – Posted in: Acquisitions, Plant info, What's up/bloomingIt's been a long time since I last published an entry. It was painful to be gone, and I'm glad to be back. Perhaps I'll devote an entry to my excuses, but for now I thought I'd share a few of my favorite things, culled from images taken while I was "gone."This is the bird [...]
Can you believe it?
October 1, 2005 – Posted in: Catalog review, Seeds and Seed StartingI got my Thompson & Morgan seed catalog today. Talk about rushing the season! It's usually the first catalog to arrive, but I don't remember it ever coming this early. I must say, the 'Fruit Punch' Oriental poppies on the cover tempt me to break my vow of no more seed starting until the beds [...]
A Plea for Help
July 5, 2005 – Posted in: MiscellaneousThis is bugging me so much I actually was dreaming about it, so I hope you can help. I still can't figure out on which blog I read about the weeding poppies rule (see previous post). I think it is the same blog that posted about Campanula rapunculoides, the Roving (to put it mildly) Bellflower. [...]
A Good Gardening Day
July 2, 2005 – Posted in: Garden choresWith the heat and incredible humidity we've been having, I've basically been ignoring the garden, with the exception of watering the few starts from a friend that I put in the ground just before this most recent heat wave began. Most of them are toast, anyway, despite my best efforts. But today, today was a [...]
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