Luck, loss, plus lawns
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 Posted in Agave celsii, lawns, native plants, poppies | 10 Comments »For years, I struggled to get poppies to come up. Don’t know the magic formula, but now I have them, even in the grass. In the beds, some returned from last year, but I scratched in a few safety seeds ...
Garden drama queens, big & small
Thursday, March 24th, 2011 Posted in bulbs, roses | 10 Comments »Drama queen of the week: Lady Banks rose. The Buff Beauty and New Dawn roses framing it on the arbor to the cat cove will soon catch up. This is not a rose for the timid. But it’s an excellent one if ...
Patience pays off; bizarre mountain laurel!
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 Posted in bulbs, fruit trees, pruning | 29 Comments »Gardening can be like recording TV shows: “Hurry up and wait.” I hate the waiting part. But since the thryallis woke up for sure, I won’t wait any longer to trim it up this weekend. I'm glad that I didn't ...
Navigating new “plantforms”
Friday, March 11th, 2011 Posted in bulbs | 12 Comments »Like computer problems, the more glitches you get, the more you learn. Ditto for gardening: every disaster teaches something new, especially when weather sends us an error message on the new "plantform" that we can't resist. Well, we wouldn’t be ...
