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 […]
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.
Rural Observations, Mid September
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 […]
Hot, Hazy, Lazy August
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 […]
When Should I Divide Daylilies?
Multiply Your Daylilies Early fall, in the months of September and October are excellent times to divide your daylily plants. Hemerocallis, the official Latin name for this tough, but beautiful perennial, may also be divided in early spring. But I favor fall planting, since they bloom from early to mid summer. Dividing daylilies is the […]
Inniswood Garden
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 […]
The Long Hot Summer
hasedProverbs 25:14 Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give. My Summer Prediction 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 […]
