Shirley poppies and Bachelor Buttons Not every garden writer alerts you to the fact that annual flowers can have seasons that are shorter than other choices. For places like Ohio which have hot summers, common annuals will only do well when our weather is cooler. Such times as in early summer only. Those cool annual […]
Colorful Flowers
Why we work so hard in the garden is due to the beauty of colorful flowers. They are a large part of the attraction we have to growing certain plants.
Do You Like Lavender?
I love it. It is a plant that I have been growing during most of my gardening career, starting with the first herb plants I tucked into my city lot garden. It was in that garden on Glen Echo Drive that I discovered how perfectly paired English lavender (Lavender vera) and dark purple petunias (Purple […]
True Lilies
I mentioned that lilies do well for me. They do, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had some learning experiences along the way. For one thing, I have a country garden with all the attendant critters that like to munch on lily bulbs. Also, as a genus lilies are not uniform in their requirements. So […]
Roses Scenting the Air
::repost::I can’t wait until I get to smell the roses again. Paul Neyron, is an old fashioned rose. But nobody tells you that after heat, heavy rains, and the rest of the roses bloomtime being just about over and this guy is looking perfect and fresh as any super suave gentleman might. A real stand […]
The Vase of Flowers
Flowers for the Guestroom… I love cut flowers, but I don’t often create bouquets for the house. It is a gracious habit, however, and one which I think I will pay more attention to this year. The pictures above are of some flowers I originally had for one of my guests right before Thanksgiving, the […]
lapis sky / shocking yellow / heliopsis!
it has been a dry fall, and the black gums and early maples are justbeginning to turn color. the trees have suffered from the dry july andaugust heat spell. some mid-aged red oaks look dead- leaves going fromgreen to brown in a week. a few showers along have kept the yard niceand the bonsai happy, […]
