On September 9, 2003, I made my first experimental post on Blogspot. It wasn’t much more than a trial of creating something with a heading and trying a couple font effects. The first garden related post was the next day, September 10, of those plants mentioned in that post my leadwort did well and I […]
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A Little Lost
We had a second storm, but I was home for this one and the intensity was not nearly so severe as the record setting storm of June 29. I’ve been out of internet for a little over a day, some branches lost from a peach tree, and that is about it. The main amount of […]
Garden Thoughts
Petunias take the heat The heat and drought have moved into Ohio, seemingly to stay for awhile. I am watering the containers and writing a bit. Also, I find it a good time to do some weeding, as long as not overexerting myself (it is record heat here in Ohio, after all). It seems a […]
The Garden Blooms, With Flowers and Ticks
lavender + butterfly weed The garden is blooming with feverfew, Shirley poppies, Pincusion flower (Scabious), Butterfly weed, lavender, rue, nepeta mussinii, and the annuals. Jackmanni Clematis is still producing flowers, but the other clematis vines are done. I put in a new Brunnera, and a few other things in a partly shady/partly sunny bed. I […]
Inspiring English Garden Advice
I enjoyed watching this video and listening to the ideas on garden color and some of the garden flowers that a talented designer uses and combines. Although we can’t use all of them here in the Midwest, we are able to use some, and the ideas on color and garden methods are quite useful. Hope […]
March Opens the Garden Season
Full fledged gardening season begins in March, an ideal time to plant trees. The ground is usually open and the new trees are dormant. It is also a time before the mad spring rush. For the past few years I have only thought of planting trees, rather than actually doing so, since there are only […]
