Sunset driveway scene; Lilac trimmed to treelike shape containers begun; Princess Irene tulip closeup; Tulips bent by rain. I planted lots of tulipa “Renown” last fall. Queen of the Bartigons is a perennial tulip… it has lasted here for more than fifteen years, and is always beautiful.
spring
Just a Short ‘What’s Up’
Just dropping in to let all my blog friends know that I have not forgotten about them or posting in my blog… it is just the fact that it is spring! I have been outside gardening (hope you will forgive me for that;) until my body aches, off to plant stores, and even helping out […]
Garden Update April 2010
I’ve been busy in the garden lately. We finally had some weather that invited work and planting, and actually became just a tad dry. Started out with the usual cleanup of branches, perennial debris from last season, etc. Then tackled the autumn clematis that had overgrown (“overgrown” is a word that could be quite descriptive […]
Early Spring
Earliest Crocus chrysanthus Spring is just now breaking in Ohio. The winter has been a long cold one here, and throughout most of the USA… but the beauty of our gardens is that they remind us of the circle of the seasons. As surely as winter brings its cold and calls forth on all living […]
March and Its Wind
It is March now. In the laziest of months the prairie winds blow wild here, but in March they really let loose. Only a blue moon hurricane does worse. You have to develop a sort of tolerance for these winds, something my husband never seems to have done. Every year, he spits out, “that wind!” […]
Flowering Trees For Spring
The GGW project had a number of entries for the Redbud tree. I had made one, but decided that there were more than enough competing pictures for it; but I thought you, my blog friends, would enjoy seeing the picture of my young tree from this spring and read the Redbud tree plant profile. I […]
