One of the groups of plants that I have always admired–even lusted after–but have never experimented with much is Kniphofia, the “red hot pokers”. Even as a child, I remember seeing those full color pictures in the Wayside Gardens catalog (and many others) and thinking that there just couldn’t be a much prettier or more…
Hello everyone! It has been almost a month since I posted last. A lot of great things have been going on and I have been in the process of moving my office to my home, which has taken a little longer than expected. I’ve had very limited and extremely slow internet access up until just…
New from Proven Winners a few years back, Sambucus ‘Black Lace’ almost didn’t survive my ruthless culling after it’s second season in the garden. I relented at the last second and, because it had shown some signs of promise in its second year, I decided to give it one last chance. Today, I’m thrilled that…
The babies are growing by leaps and bounds. It has been 3 weeks since the eggs were laid and the babies are now approximately two weeks old. They’ve grown from very scrawny and sort of ugly little naked chicks into bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, pin-feathered and very hungry little chirpers. Their instincts are really quite amazing, and…
I have put off posting for a brief period because I’ve been having photo software problems with the computer and didn’t want to do the first bluebird post until I had some pictures to share. However, the issue is still not resolved and if I don’t get busy blogging, the baby birds will have grown…
So I was working on a few things for the website yesterday–technical stuff mostly–and as part of the process I typed my name into “Google” to make sure that if anyone searched for me by name that it did, indeed, direct them to my website. It does. Good news. While I was there (on Google)…
It’s clivia season! I always wait with anticipation in mid- to late March to see whether or not the clivias are going to flower in April. I have two–the common orange variety, Clivia miniata and the much rarer yellow-flowering form ‘Citrina’. Both are extremely special plants. The orange one is special because it came from…
I have a new garden post that I will put up tomorrow, but tonight I feel inspired to take a detour from gardening for just a moment. This won’t happen often. The garden blog will remain the garden blog and 99% of the posts will be just that. However, I’ve discovered something so extraordinary and…
Stick around a day. It’ll change! The weather roller coaster continues to whip us around wildly here in Tennessee. Late last week we had some of the most glorious spring weather we’ve seen all season–and today?–SNOW (perhaps). Right now it’s a warm and toasty 39 degrees and the rain is falling steadily. It doesn’t get…
Since my week got away from me last week, I’m posting a second post tonight. Hope you don’t mind! I’ve promised a new plant or product post each week, too, so here’s the new plant that I’m most excited about this week. (Since you’re gardeners, you do understand that my favorite plant changes at least…