My garden’s been humming along quite nicely, especially considering the heat. I guess this was the perfect year to try and only get drought tolerate flowers for the pots in the side garden. The portulaca especially are doing wonderfully out there. Oddly enough, my mini-herb garden is only doing so-so. The softer herbs bit the […]
The iris have been blooming for about two weeks now, which is a tried and true indicator of when the weather is finally warm enough that you can put all your frost sensitive plants into the garden. Here on the southern coast of Maine, that usually coincides with Memorial Day, which is when I usually
I’ve barely touched anything since I did my yearly planting back in June. Everything got more than enough (really too much) water with no intervention on my part. I also fortunately put down plenty of mulch in June, so despite all the water (and probably in some cases because of it), the weeds have remained
In all the excitement of last week (sister in from CA, family road trip to NY, lots of rain), while I did manage to plant all of my Memorial Day weekend purchases last Monday, I wasn’t able to photograph them until today. I’m already really happy with the backyard pot garden. It already looks nice,
I hit upon a brilliant idea earlier in the week. Rather than fight the crowds at Broadway Gardens over the holiday weekend, I went after work today. Full Memorial Day weekend selection before the hoards have a chance to descend. It was a little busy, but I easily got parking, and had no trouble getting
I had a night to myself last night, and spent nearly the whole time working on the garden (and my entire backside is protesting this morning). Early spring has gone by, and everything is well into late spring form. My potted perennials suffered a bit this winter. Neither of my Heuchera came back, so I
The weather has progressed beyond crocus stage. It always amazes me how quickly the flowers start coming in once we have decent stretches of 45 degree + weather.
