May 3, 2013 | A Gardening Life, You Can Grow That!
A Gardening Life – May 4 As I walk around my early-May landscape it is a lesson in the attitude of gratitude. Every square foot of land contains a blessing, but only if I have the right approach to receive it. The spring garden is the perfect place to practice a...
Apr 29, 2013 | A Gardening Life, my gardens, Perennial Maintenance
A Gardening Life – April 29 I had a crack team of Master Gardeners in my garden today. We were digging up perennial plants and potting them for the Master Gardener Plant sale on May 18th. Perennial gardeners have to be good editors. Some plants spread, and...
Apr 26, 2013 | A Gardening Life
A Gardening Life – April 26 Sometimes we plant in our gardens treating the existing objects, plants and features as if they have to be there. Just because there was a raised bed in that area doesn’t mean it has to stay and that you have to continue to fill...
Apr 21, 2013 | A Gardening Life, products I love
Arborvitaes are multi-stemmed plants so when heavy, wet snow falls sticks to the foliage these stems are pulled apart. What used to be a slim, green plant suddenly resembles the Wizard of Oz scarecrow pointing in two directions. “Of course, some people go both ways.”...
Apr 14, 2013 | A Gardening Life, plants I love
A Gardening Life – April 14 Every year in the early spring I fall in love with Anemone blanda. “I should plant more of these,” I say to myself. The intense purplish blue flowers would be appreciated any month that they might open in the garden, but they are...
