May 2, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 2 The second day in Gifts From The Garden Month is dedicated to appreciating how the garden offers us a widow into the natural world. Some might be content with planting their geraniums and Dracaena spikes every year and not thinking any...
May 1, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 1 When I was a girl, my mother made sure that we celebrated May Day. We’d make a cone out of paper, tape or staple a handle on it, and add flowers, small candies or gum. Once the basket was finished and filled, we’d hang it on a neighbor’s...
Apr 26, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 26 I can’t imagine a landscape that doesn’t have a bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis) in the flower garden, or tucked among shrubs and foundation plantings. This perennial is very hardy, reliable, and absolutely lovely. It lends its...
Apr 25, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 25 I rushed home from the garden center today and quickly changed into jeans so that I could start planting. I wanted to put some sweet-scented roses into the fragrance garden, and I have several plants that I ordered from Big Dipper Farm...
Apr 24, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 24 When I finally got into the garden this afternoon, I knew that I absolutely had to do three things: Unpack the plant shipment from Big Dipper Farm, plant the bare-root roses that were sent for my trial, and spray my weeping pear,...
Apr 23, 2010 | my gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 23 At this time of year I am in serious trouble. I’m tempted by plants every where I turn: in garden centers, at grocery stores, online and in catalogs, they’re calling “take me home!” I’m intrigued by their foliage, flowers, history and...
