Jun 15, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, products I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 15 Today I bought batteries and set up my Wireless Deer Fences. They need to charge overnight so that when I put them out, and the scent tubes draw the deer to them, they are ready to shock. You see, the Wireless Deer Fence works because...
Jun 14, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I hate, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 14 I was determined to get some garden time in tonight, despite a long day of consultations. After spreading mulch five to six my body demanded some lighter work, so I headed to the lakeside perennial border to deadhead the peonies. In...
Jun 13, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, products I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 13 Are there plants in your garden that make your heart soar? Just a glance at the flowers or foliage make you smile, right? This is how I feel about my Salix ‘Hakuro Nishiki’, the dappled willow. The new foliage is most striking in early...
Jun 12, 2010 | Garden Celebrations, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 12 I often wonder who among us could be a household name if he or she had a good marketer. In a previous post I wrote about plants that were quiet treasures, and this was on my mind again today when I spoke about Hydrangeas at Highfield...
Jun 11, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 11 This summer reminds me of the year I did the flowers for Rachel Kaufman’s Bat Mitzvah. The ceremony was scheduled for late-June, and I thought that I’d have peonies, sweet William, iris and Lysimachia punctata for the synagogue and...
Jun 10, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 10 I’m opening Poison Ivy Acres at the end of June; it will be on a fundraising garden tour to benefit my church. Needless to say, I can’t plant/weed/mulch/edit/rearrange fast enough. I’ve had gardens on tour in the past, and I realize...
