I've bought yet another plant after saying I was tired of my houseplants. I pounced on this forced hyacinth in bud while grocery shopping. I didn't force any hyacinths myself this year because I was short of funds and many of the bulbs I tried to force last year went moldy on me. But right now I am enjoying the fragrance of this one, and I have another hyacinth glass for my collection in the bargain.
After whining all year about seeing too much bare dirt in my garden, I am happy to report the problem has been rectified by several annuals that finally got going this month, just in time for the first frost. Fortunately, a lot of the annuals I favor are not fazed by a light frost, so [...]
There 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. [...]
June has been rainy and on the cool side this year. I think that has contributed to a paucity of blooms. Or, it could be that the gardens at the new house are just a bit behind the gardens at our former house. Or maybe both. By mid-June, I am accustomed to seeing peonies, poppies, [...]
This is the second spring in our new garden. It takes time for plants to build up strength and multiply and consequently early spring/late mud season bloom here looks sparse. But each leaf is soaking up sunshine and storing food that will make next year's bloom, and the slow-to-warm spring that we have been enduring [...]
The flowers that made an appearance earlier this week during our brief thaw are now covered with snow again. Good thing I took pictures when I had the chance. The only snowdrops up were Galanthus 'S. Arnott' which is the earliest one I have. Here are some planted under a Japanese maple at the front [...]
I practice what I preach. I make sure I have plants to help get me through the winter.In fact, that pot of narcissus was in my last post about cabin fever. Yes, that is the same red dragonwing begonia from last winter. Last winter I brought a fairly big pot of it inside. This year [...]
Yes, it's true. The fall-blooming crocus I wrote about for last month's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day are still blooming. Some of the pale ones came up and are trying to bloom, thanks to a series of unseasonably warm days. The leaves of the pale ones emerge simultaneously with the flowers, so all the grass-like crocus [...]
I am always looking for ways to extend the bloom season later into the fall and earlier into the spring. I had planted some Crocus speciosus at my old garden intermingled with some colchicum, thinking they would bloom together. Wrong! The crocus bloomed later. I took advantage of that fact here at the new house, [...]
Just as we did in October 2010, we skipped the early frosts of September and went straight to a hard freeze: 22F on October 13th. With a cold snap like that, you might think everything would be flattened. But you would be wrong. First a tip of the hat to Rosa 'ZleMatinCipar', better known as [...]
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