Spring is right around the corner, and I've been going through photos of the garden bed adjoining our back deck. My, has it grown up--but it also needs tinkering. If you're looking for some flower power to get you through mud season, c'mon over and check this post out. Who knows? Maybe you'll get some ideas for your own spring renovation.
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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 [...]
How to Analyze An Area of Your Yard to Improve It: The Parking Pad Bed
March 9, 2014 – Posted in: Design, How-to, New House, New Gardens, Parking Pad BedIn case you are just joining in: About two-and-a-half years ago our family moved from our long-time rural home to a different 19th-century farm house about twenty-five minutes from our previous one. I have been renovating the landscape around the house in a non-systematic frenzy and writing about it as time permits. (Previous posts are [...]
Local Daylilies: Visit A Grower Near You
August 9, 2013 – Posted in: Daylilies, Plant infoDaylilies are easy to take for granted. I see them in catalogs all the time, and think, "Oh, that looks nice." But then I look at the price, add in shipping, and decide, "Nah, not this time." So my collection of daylilies has been limited to passalongs from friends plus an anniversary special from Wild's--20 [...]
A Few Of My Favorite Things: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day July 2013
July 16, 2013 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingThere are lots of blooming plants in my garden, so I decided to focus on a few favorites.I love the vivid colors in this daylily that came with the house. There are lots of buds, so it should be in bloom for a long time.These two daylilies are on opposite ends of the Slope Garden. [...]
July Containers In My New Cold Climate Garden: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day 2012
July 15, 2012 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingJuly has been hot and dry. I try not to complain, as I know in many areas it has been hotter and drier for longer. But the fact remains that the daylilies and roses would be putting on a better show if they had more consistent moisture.When I moved late last fall, many plants came [...]
Bountiful Blooms: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day July 2011
July 15, 2011 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingThe plentiful rain and lack of frost that characterized this spring is still bearing fruit. I can't remember ever seeing my daylilies so floriferous. The whole garden has a feeling of lushness that I soak up every chance I get. So it was tough choosing photos for this month's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. For the [...]
If You Can’t Take the Frost,
Get Out of the Garden
April 20, 2010
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Don't get me wrong--I love snowdrops, winter aconites, crocus and all the very earliest bloomers that signal the end of winter's dominion. But here in the land of late and unseemly freezes, plants that emerge later have the advantage. Those poor 'Black Beauty' lilies in the photo above were seduced by the atypical but not [...]
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