May 30, 2011 | my gardens, plants I love, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – May 30 One of the great pleasures of gardening is when you stop gardening, take a shower, then sit overlooking the landscape…preferably while sipping a glass of wine. Since I worked all day I only spent an hour planting in...
May 23, 2011 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Pet Peeves, plants I love
Report From AN Opinionated Gardener – May 23 I’ve long despaired that many people aren’t willing to buy plants in a garden center unless they are in bloom. While I understand both the attraction to flowers and the desire to know what you’re buying, this “color...
May 22, 2011 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – May 22 Outstanding, extraordinary and sensory. Those are some of the definitions of the adjective sensational. I’m thinking today that these are also the definitions of a garden and the connections that plants and landscapes...
May 12, 2011 | my gardens, plants I love, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – May 12 Nor is it Mrs Obama’s vegetable patch at the White House. The good news is that growing your own food can be done on a scale and style that suites you. Whether you choose to plant in containers on the back deck or...
May 9, 2011 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – May 9 Going through photos from a previous summer, I chanced on one that showed a ‘Black Pearl’ ornamental pepper growing above a white scaevola. What a brilliant combo! Totally accidental, of course. Whenever I plant ‘Black...
May 6, 2011 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – May 6 Put this on your calendar for September of 2011: Plant a patch of tulips. Yes, I know what many of you are thinking. “Tulips only bloom well for one year and then they peter out so that by the fourth season you’re left...
