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The Great Houseplant Census of 2010

February 2, 2010

Mr. McGregor’s Daughter, in an effort to promote domestic harmony*, has requested gardeners everywhere to tally up the number of plants they currently have growing inside. Here are my results:
Outdoor Plants Wintering Over
1 rosemary
1 ‘Rehoku Sunrise’ carex (an experiment)
1 apple seedling (my middle daughter’s experiment)
1 orange tree grown from seed by my 16 year old [...]

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The 2009 GWA Symposium in Raleigh, NC: A Yankee’s Waking Dream

October 2, 2009

I don’t travel much. As a matter of fact, all the flying I’ve done in my adult life has been because of blogging, and all my flights have been to much warmer climates than my own. Every time I’ve left my home turf, I’ve found the experience a little unreal. Unmoored from my usual routine, [...]

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When is my last spring frost?

May 9, 2009

Read about guessing the last spring frost date

Usually, when you want to know your last spring frost, the experts send you to a hardiness zone map, a chart, or even the NOAA records, conceding that this will only give you a ballpark figure. If you really want to know your local last frost date, consult a neighbor–at least until you’ve kept records [...]

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Weather Surprise

April 29, 2009

Whoa! 33.5F this morning. Why did I think it was only going down to 50F? Cannas & rosemary spent the night out. Crossing fingers.

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Keeping rosemary alive indoors

October 19, 2008

Most herbs taste much better fresh, and rosemary is no exception. That’s why every winter I try to keep my rosemary alive in a pot inside the house. Rosemary is not reliably hardy north of zone 7, so while southerners can grow this in the ground and watch it take on shrub-like proportions, we cold [...]

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The Iceman Cometh: April freeze casualties

April 29, 2006

After my shrubs got planted they enjoyed a weekend of glorious weather. But I happened to notice Sunday morning that it was supposed to get in the low 30s that night. Low 30s, I knew, meant definitely below freezing around here. I made a mental note to bring in my potted plants and cover the [...]

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Acclimating rosemary outdoors

April 17, 2003

I don’t plant/dig/plant the rosemary plants I winter over–I feel it is too hard on them to repeatedly re-establish. So I keep them in pots, large enough for them to be comfortable in and small enough for me to winter inside feasibly. And carry! This also allows me to indulge in pretty pots [...]

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Summer care of Rosemary

April 15, 2003

Judy, do you keep your rosemary in a pot throughout the summer, or do you plant it in the ground and dig it up for winter? Either way, when do you start hardening it off? How do you go about it, i.e., how long do you put it out the first day, the second, and [...]

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Garden to-do list

February 3, 2003

I think I have not bought things from Richter’s yet. I may still, but I am trying to play it by ear. I have figured out that I need at least another 400 square feet of garden space in order to plant the seeds I already ordered, not including 2 varieties of [...]

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Rosemary sources, garden dreaming

January 28, 2003

I was just looking at Richter’s on line and saw all the rosemary varieties. They sell plug tray’s of 120cts of many plants that I am always tempted to buy because it is such a great deal, but can’t really reconcile why I need 120 of anything. Part of me would love to sell [...]

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Rosemary tips and germination references.

January 22, 2003

Correction to the rosemary hints. They can freeze–just not way deep like you’d get outside. I think something like 10F is the limit, maybe 15? Does your porch get colder than that? (Prescott AZ where I saw the planters full certainly sees that cold in the winter. They have some [...]

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‘Arp’ rosemary hardier but ugly

January 19, 2003

‘Arp’ was the first kind I ever got, precisely because it is reputed to be so hardy. I figured if I somehow left it out and we had a hard freeze it would survive my carelessness. But you are right: now that I have a different (unknown) variety, I can see that ‘Arp’ was ugly. [...]

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How to keep rosemary happy in winter

January 19, 2003

Kathy, if you want to keep rosemary happy in the winter, keep it cold & bright (as if it were having a milder winter than you are!)–I either keep it on a barely heated sunporch so it doesn’t go below freezing or above 50, or against the coldest window in a cold room. They [...]

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