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Cold Climate Gardening (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
No thanks to me, but we have been enjoying some fabulous lettuce from the garden lately. Except for one week in early June, it hasn’t been especially hot. So it might be the weather, or it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
In bloom still the seed grown Butterfly flower or Shizanthus.I photographed two flowers today in shades of purple and white, with central colours like ink blot paper. They are colloquially named Poor Mans Orchids, just from the colouration. I love the ferny leaves and bright coloured flowers. They are sat in a clay pot on the table by the Rose bench. I have not done much today, besides tidying the...
kerry's garden (Free subscription) | yesterday
Best Friends Ripley and Katticus can get pretty intense when they wrestle. I don’t think either one of them realize what the other is capable of.
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | yesterday
To catch up new readers, last fall I gleefully removed my front lawn, prepped the soil, and, in a radical departure for me, planted vegetables. I just could no longer resist the passionate entreaties of Michele Owens and Ed Bruske,...
Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The birds eye view today of my garden from the spare room, looking down on it. It is good to see things from a new view point.I usually sit by the back door, or on the rose bench at the end of the garden. The bottom right corner of the photo shows a wild butterfly bush that is growing out of a drain pipe. I thought I would leave it to see if Butterflys come to the flowers, even though they are twenty...
Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In flower today two floral treasures of the Aztecs, Dahlias. The first one is so brilliant it dazzled the camera with its hot pink tones. Its called "Wink". These plants travelled from South America to Spain, before being bred to form thousands of hybrids in a rainbow explosion of colours and forms. The second one is brilliant in the colour of the central eye contrasting to the light coloured tones...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A couple of months ago, GardenRant World Headquarters was sent a bottle of Nature's Avenger, a new organic herbicide made with orange oil, to try out. At the moment I don't use any herbicides in my garden. I either dig...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
My use for a garden cart like this is to wheel around bags of mulch, heavy ceramic pots, multiple flats of plants, and so on. Even though I have a small, urban garden—as I've often pointed out—it doesn't make dragging...
Lawn Sprinkler Tips (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
When replacing your lawn sprinkler timer, a.k.a. controller, it can be a simple process or can quickly turn into a complicated, frustrated ordeal that cannot figure how to get working. I can give you some tips to help you with this because I've already experienced it myself and with training numerous employees. Replacing your timer will very depending on model and type but there are two main types,...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
One of the highlights of the Gardenblogger Spring Fling in Austin was getting to meet the one and only Lucinda Hutson, gardener and food writer extraordinaire (How's Tequila for a book title, Amy') and experiencing her hospitality. Of course when...
Daughter of the Soil (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
All together now ... oooooooooooh!! The red-podded peas have now completed their life cycle, and in fact have started a new one, because I've already sown a batch of their F3 offspring. Red-podded peas were an unexpected gift from my Purple Mangetout Project, which I'm doing on behalf of The Real Seed Catalogue . I really have to thank Ben of Real Seeds for making it happen. He sent me the Golden Sweet...
Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
One of my hanging baskets has a Fuschia Winston Churchill in it.The flowers are so vibrant and energetic in the colour of the blooms. The Lobelia and Busy Lizzies have been slow to start off but are growing on slowly. Its raining this morning, so I know the allotment and garden will be drinking deeply. One more night shift left.I ate this morning from the garden a Raspberry, a Strawberry, and some...
Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
From the garden this morning an Anemone that has flowered besides an Echinacea that has not.The sun was shining, and the sky was a brilliant blue.After the night shift I sat in the garden with coffee taking random photos.New flowers had appeared overnight. Every day I find something new in bud, or blooming.The garden is becoming technicolour, with all shades of flowers appearing in the sea of green....
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Is it possible for a plant to be too beautiful, too tall, too healthy, too prolific? I have an Asiatic lily in my yard called 'Pink Giant' that is definitely exploring the boundary between pleasure and pain in the ass....
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Here is a photo of my vegetable garden: Just kidding. This is mine. It's nothing startling--I'm a writer, not a painter or designer. But I know enough to know vegetable gardens need substance, since they are basically gardens of annuals--ephemerals...
