Don’t trim or prune your mugo in the fall. That is the short answer. Pines will stop growing from the points at which you prune off their branches
Plants
Flowering Kale
Kale For Sale- on one of my daytrips It’s time to think of the autumn phase of the garden already. When we picture autumn we picture the trees ablaze with color, at least here in the Midwest, and in the Northeast of the USA. Other players on the stage, perhaps with a supporting role, but […]
Flowering Kale
I couldn’t help myself. I was at the former “Wild Oats”, now “Whole Foods” store yesterday and there were the last of their flowering kale offerings on sale for 99 ¢ each. You know me by now… if you read this garden journal. I am a frugal gardener, but also an addicted one. I could […]
Beauty Bush, Kolkwitzia amabilis
While out shopping, of course I couldn’t resist checking out the sale shrubs that were left in a store that happens to have a very fine nursery during the growing season (). There were very few to pick from, but lo, and behold, a shrub that I had wanted to obtain for years: Beauty Bush. […]
Q&A From Keywords
Sometimes it is interesting what people are looking for when they land on your page. Here are a few questions that people had according to my Statcounter, along with the answers I have for them today. When to mulch garden? Well, for this time of year I would wait until we have had frozen ground, […]
Four O’Clocks
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 […]
