When we were looking at this house and walking through the 4.4 acres of “eclectic” conditions (wetland, dry infertile areas, clay soil, sandy soil, full sun in some areas, surrounded by woodland, bunch of boulders pushed around by glacial force and the whims of the builders) we walked along […]
He’s baaaaaack. Fountain Frog knows a good thing when he sees one.
Up to now I’ve mainly used whiskey barrels for water features for aquatics but the past couple of years it has not worked for the water lilies which apparently need annual dividing and plenty of room to roam (also fertilizer) so I am experimenting with a larger set up with […]
Most of the tropicals that overwintered as houseplants above. The colocasias, alocasias, Bird of Paradise, Society Garlic and the not-pictured lemongrass overwinter in dishes filled water. I do have a NOID colocasia I overwinter as a tuber as I do with dahlias – cut the foliage off, let it dry, […]
Front yard filled with golden alexanders and serviceberries and elderberries and other virtue-signalling native pollinators and my friends here have chosen Rodgersia (compliments of China) and a snake plant (compliments of west Africa.) I plant a lot of non-natives/non-invasives I’m comfortable with, but this is a bit like cooking a […]
This is the first time she’s shown much of an interest in horticulture.
Last week we hit whatever cold-weather threshold we needed to hit to call for Potato and Leek soup and I went into the garden to dig up the leeks, which are among my favorite vegetables to grow. When I started the messy business of cleaning them up things got…gross…small […]
Asters are no longer asters, they are in the genus Symphotrichtum, unless they are Eurybia, and there are dozens of species. They are all harassed-looking daisy-types with 1/4″ or 1 1/2″ flowers, heart shaped leaves or lance-like leaves, in varying shades of murky blues and purples and whites and pinks. […]
(I struggled with image classes on this post and think I fixed them but apologies if a later update blows out my edits. I’ll fix it. Eventually.) Above: Bottle gentians, blue, late blooming, good cut flowers–in particular with late flowering orange and yellow daisy-shaped flowers and dahlias. Native. Allegedly attractive […]