They're having a plant clinic over at Garden Rant, and I decided to submit the perplexing, premature leaf drop my 'Autumn Brilliance' Juneberry exhibits every year. The leaf drop was addressed in today's clinic, but since they didn't show all the images, I thought I'd share them here. So much for autumn brilliance, huh? Though [...]
Juneberry
Climate is What We Expect;
Weather is What We Get*
April 10, 2010
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Garden chores,
Weather,
What's up/blooming
The weather has been unseasonably warm here. It's a great cure for cabin fever, but a worry to the true gardener. If it's this warm and dry in early spring, what will July be like? It also incites the gambling tendencies inherent in our noble profession. I wonder if we've had our last frost? (Not [...]
The Juneberry Room
May 3, 2009 – Posted in: Meditations, What's up/bloomingThe Juneberries started blooming a week ago. They have such a short-lived but ethereal beauty that it just about breaks my heart even as it soars. When you have acreage, as we do, you find yourself nicknaming certain parts of your property so you can refer others to it: the secret garden, the duck pond, [...]
Juneberries, the northern garden’s answer to flowering dogwood
May 11, 2007 – Posted in: Plant infoI spent my childhood in climates where the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) flourished, and I loved its elegant simplicity. When we moved here, I was dismayed but not surprised when my new neighbor told me that she had twice planted a flowering dogwood in a protected corner of her house, and twice it had died. [...]
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