It’s hot out today. I did probably the least amount of work of any of the days this weekend, but came in the stickiest. The zinnias are now planted in the side garden. I also potted an Italian parsley seedling I got a couple weeks back from my mother. So, the outside garden is done. […]
Broadway Gardens was open at 8 this morning, and someone was snoring like a wounded harbor seal at about 8:15 this morning, so since I was awake, I got up, took a shower, grabbed an iced coffee at DD, and arrived at about 8:45. This turned out to be the perfect time. I got a
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The Memorial Day Garden Marathon part one is over! This morning (I’ve gotten smarter about these things, and just go out early before I’ve actually showered), I headed out and planted the six plants I’ve already managed to pick up before my regularly scheduled trip to Broadway Gardens. Above is the back yard shade garden,
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I’m pretty sure I just dead-headed half a million daffodils. That, combined with potting up the salvia I bought yesterday, and moving around the pots in the back yard, and I feel like my back is permanently hunched over. I really need to do something about the bulb situation in my garden. There are tons
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Lots of plants to see this weekend. With the super warm day we had on Thursday, a lot of stuff has hopped into existence in the last couple of days. In order, left to right, top to bottom: 1. Rhodys in my Dad’s garden.2. Forget me nots in my Dad’s garden.3. Mini iris in my
A small sampler of Spring flowers: In slightly less pretty news, I already have lily beetles in my lilies! Damn bugs! The poor lilies were so badly infested last year that one of three plants never managed to bloom (the other two were pretty half-hearted about it). I’d managed to find an organic insecticide that
So just yesterday I was telling my mother that I’d been avoiding the garden centers because I really wanted some pansies, but didn’t quite know what to do with them, so wasn’t going to buy any. This morning, at her church, one of the parishioners brought in a ton of pansies she didn’t want any
It’s amazing what hitting 60 degrees will do. The daffodils were barely budding yesterday. This picture was taken when I got home from work. By the time we were back from dinner (yep, totally choked on any amount of cooking creativity and went out to eat), almost all of the buds in this picture were
The garden is coming along, considering how early it still is for the season. The hyacinths have actually started to bud, so I’ll soon have more then just crocus. Thursday was an absolutely lovely, seasonally warm day, so I took the opportunity to take all of my perennial pots out of winter hibernation in the
Probably about the best thing about being in Rhode Island over the weekend is that they’re so much further ahead in the season then we are up here in the Great Frozen North, and it was so nice to see all the green, and buds on the trees. Heck, it was even warm enough to
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