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Ilona's Garden Journal
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.
Emily from her Garden Living blog had a post and pictures on four o’clocks that remind her of “grandma”. Hers are a cheerful hot pink color, but four o’clocks come in a mardi gras variety of colors that really brighten up the garden. I grew some a couple years ago and hoped to winter them…
Siberian irises are one of my favorite garden plants, and they hold a sentimental value as well. Growing up, we had an impressive stand of a deep purple variety that I believe was “Caesar’s Brother” that old centurion of perennial gardens. Beware “Hand-Me-Down” Names For me, they were something out of the Japanese prints my…
Well, the golden waves of grain are now golden piles of corn being poured from the harvesters into the bins and off to the silos. Huge trucks with arched covers, telltale spills of grain on the road, and bare fields of chaff- not yet plowed, are September’s story. The dried cornstalks of fields yet unharvested…
That is what it is like here, the heat finally made it in conjunction with the thunderstorms, and we are steaming. The grass is growing and I might make it out there early tomorrow to mow ( if it doesn’t rain again) but there is no way I am going to melt away in this…
Here are some of the promised photos of Innis Gardens in the Metro Parks system of Columbus Ohio. It is one of our family’s favorite places to visit, even the teenagers like it. Once a private gardened place of two elderly sisters, it was given to the Metro Parks system and has been developed diligently…
Proverbs 25:14 Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give. I’m predicting it…. for my area, anyway. Ohio was hard hit by thunderstorms in some areas, but again the rain passed us by. The proverbs illustration reminds me to tighten up my promises and over extensions…
The first two pictures were taken @ Innis Garden last year, the third was from Easton Shopping Center. I very much like the choice of one magnificent plant with a graceful container and interesting support. This part of Innis garden is called a “secret garden”, made to look like and old ruin and tucked away…
Tags: lavender, garden path | Pages: State of the Garden: the lavender hedge
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…
I have a long standing love affair with these plants. And I know I am not alone. 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 are sold in garden centers and nurseries everywhere. Pelargonium Flower Types There…
