Dependable Blooms to Brighten Your Landscape Everyone wants a beautiful garden, but not everyone wants to have to coddle plants that give only limited return of bloom for a good garden show. It’s not as if the modern homeowner has access to the kind of professional gardener that made the English gardens of the early […]
perennial plants
Flowers Of May: Bearded Iris
German Iris bloom in late April or throughout May, but you plant them in late March and throughout April.
Daylilies Grow On You
I just wrote a page about Daylilies, and then saw Kathy Purdy’s post on Facebook with a delightful portrait of a variety called “Going Bananas”. It got me thinking about what colors of Hemerocallis I like best. Time For Daylilies, on Ilona’s Garden Daylilies in My Memory From earliest memory when visiting old fashioned gardens […]
You’ll Rue The Day…
Rue with no view of the flagstone path Ever heard that saying? It might become all too meaningful if you are working on a hot summer day, especially while trimming back the “Herb of Grace” Ruta graveolens, AKA “Rue”. The sap from cut or bruised plants can be very irritating. Some people actually blister from […]
Hellebores and Friends
Christmas Roses Planted in the Garden Sue of “A Corner Garden“, which is a lovely blog, btw- I just love the picture of your garden and lovable dog, left a question on an old post… “Hellebore Happiness“. I wanted to answer and not have it lost in the ole blog “back 40”. Sue wrote: Hi […]
Winter Hazel, Bee Balm, and pesky Privet
This will be the last post of my stroll around my yard, and the many so-called“problem” plants in the old landscaping around the house. it seems that nuisanceand problem are words applied primarily to a plant with aggressively spreading habits.most people generally prefer gardens without this type of intruder. i have found,over and over, that […]
