By mid-May many perennials and flowering shrubs are in flower and we can walk into the garden every day to enjoy their beauty. Shared here are a few photos from several days of garden walks. Featured n the Google … Continue reading →
With warm weather and longer days, all of the flowering plants and shrubs are growing, some getting ready to bloom, some now if flower. It is a time for transplanting, cleaning flower beds, propagating new plants, and cleaning up. Landscape … Continue reading →
Spring is a busy time. In the last two weeks I have planted my greens garden, cleaned up the vegetable gardens, rebuilt a fence section, painted two fences, recycled a lot of material, and I have transplanted a number … Continue reading →
In the last few days of November, the temperatures ranged from -3ºC to +2ºC. No hard frosts had yet decimated standing plants, but that is not far away. In the vegetable garden chard and arugula was still fine. … Continue reading →
Gazanias (Gazania rigens) are warm-weather (Zones 9 – 11) summer-flowering herbaceous perennials in the daisy family. They bring vibrant colors (oranges, yellows, pinks, and reds) to the home garden. They also called African daisies since they are native to South … Continue reading →
The traditional method of propagating perennial seed follows these steps: harvest the seed when it is mature Clean the seed and remove all other material Give the seed some time to dry and be dormant In early spring or late … Continue reading →
In our home garden, clematis climbs on trellises and up walls on two sides of the house. We provide support on the wall with a series of screws and wires. It climbs to about 10 feet on both … Continue reading →
We are out in the garden every day, maintaining the flower beds, borders, vegetable beds, shrubs, fruit trees, containers (weeding, harvesting, deadheading, cutting back, watering, fertilizing, recycling, and cleaning up). When it is hot, we look for shaded areas … Continue reading →
Every month brings new flowers, maturing vegetables, and herbs, and shrub growth. We go out every day to weed, deadhead, harvest, transplant, rebuild, clean up, and survey what needs to be done. But we also go out just … Continue reading →
We work in the garden most days and see flowers and shrubs blooming, vegetables and herbs growing, trees leafing and setting blossoms, and the new spring growth everywhere. There is much to do each day, but we also take … Continue reading →
