Want to know what actions to take concerning cold damage to your plants from the recent unseasonable freezing weather? I found a tip sheet for you. Cold damage ====== Today is gorgeous -just gorgeous and I am so happy… because I went to Sam’s Club, as planned, and made my purchase of those hydrangeas I […]
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Weekend Garden Report
This last weekend was lovely, although it threatens rain today. I started making my rounds to all the local nursery haunts to buy my plants for the season. So far I bought some to make up my containers: vining plants such as variegated ivy, a purple leaved Ipomoea batatas ( sweet potato ), some dark […]
Pelargoniums- or “geraniums” to you
I have a long standing love affair with Geraniums. And I know I am not alone. They are eye-catching and easy to grow; available almost everywhere with reasonable prices. The flowers we commonly call geraniums are actually Pelargoniums by name, but we stubbornly continue to call them what we want to, and that is how they […]
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Perhaps you are more aware of Raven’s Nest than I was; if so, you perhaps read this excellent post on grasses in the landscape. I have long been looking at grasses as a way to make my gardens more in keeping with the environs here ( this was once prairie), but that isn’t the only […]
