My favorite bulbs – grape hyacinths (muscari) – are out. I even have a white one this year, though of course, I can’t get it to photograph correctly. I’ll have to try again if it manages to survive the next couple days of rainy weather. I have no idea why I love these guys so […]
After yesterday’s torrential rain, the daffodils are now out! And, I had to take my plants out of the garage on Tuesday when I discovered that the bleeding heart was sprouting. Before too much longer, I’ll be able to sow some cool weather seed crops. Yay Spring!
I came back from Florida bitten hard by the gardening bug. The transition from zone 10b to 5b is not terribly kind, and I came back to a really bleak landscape. Fortunately, it being Spring now, Mother Nature is at least attempting to please me. The above is my side garden, with bulbs very happily
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
