Snowdrops began blooming the day before we left for Puerto Rico. Oh, no. I was going to miss them. They, of course, like cold weather, but mid-March had been warmish. The snow had mostly melted. It seemed spring was going to arrive while we were in the tropics. Oh, the mischievous mind. It makes aRead more about Snowdrops Still[…]
The deer are eating my zinnias. Zinnias! For the first time in 20 years, my zinnia flowers have been nipped off. Did you catch the cause of my irritation, the beginning of distress? “My” zinnias. Sez who? Someone else grew those zinnias; i (merely) planted them; someone (or something) else ate them. In 3 moreRead more about Please Don’t Eat the Zinnias[…]
Red raspberries are slowly beginning to ripen. Today i picked just enough for my cereal. I’m ready, but they are not–yet. Patience my dear. Patience is the quality that remedies just about every unskillful state. Greedy for more raspberries? Patience. Irritated at garden pests? Patience. Confused about what to do? Patience. Anxious? Patience. Worried? Patience.Read more about Red Raspberry Patience[…]
This evening, my garden group went to visit an azalea garden. Doug has collected seed and grown dozens of azaleas from seed. His specialty is azaleas in the orange-flamingo-salmon-peach range of colors–each one breath-taking, some of them bi-color. How much patience does it take to grow an azalea from seed to flower? Three years, accordingRead more about Azalea Patience[…]
The Garden Club is having a plant sale on Saturday, so i’m dividing perennials and potting them up with compost. What a great opportunity to thin out some of the spreaders, such as bee balm. What are some of the spreaders in your life? Too much stuff in the house? Too much irritation in theRead more about White Bee Balm[…]
Did you hear about the weed seed experiment at Michigan State University? 20 bottles of weed seeds were buried by a botanist in 1879 to see how long weed seeds can last in the soil. This year bottle #15 was unearthed, opened, and, yes, weeds are sprouting. I wonder how long the weed seeds ofRead more about Weed Seeds[…]