If you’re like many gardeners, you get overly zealous in the spring, creating larger flower beds, carefully edging existing beds, meticulously spreading mulch where needed, trimming the grasses, tending to newly sprouted perennials, etc. Then by mid to late summer, you realize your energy isn’t quite the same and there are certain areas of your … Continue reading Low-Maintenance Gardening
Daffodils Have Finished Blooming
The following are in bloom this week in our Zone 6 gardens: Bleeding hearts (Dicentra spectabilis), Celandine poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum), carpet phlox (Phlox subulata), lilacs, some rhodies and azaleas, one of the dogwoods and the Purple Leaf plum (Prunus cerasifera), also known in our family as “The Laurie Tree.” The daffodils have finished blooming. Potted … Continue reading Daffodils Have Finished Blooming
Did You Know?
Noted furniture designers Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams, who celebrated their company’s 25th anniversary and 20 stores in April of 2014, originally planned on opening a Christmas tree farm. ~The Boston Globe, 05/01/2014 Wheat is thought to be the most widely grown plant in the world. It has been cultivated for more than 7,000 years … Continue reading Did You Know?
Planting Seeds Soon
“The weather has finally caught up with the calendar,” as I read in the Boston Globe a couple of days ago. So true! This past weekend I even got to work in the garden without a coat. And, hubby took out the summer furniture from the cellar. There are so many emerging green shoots and … Continue reading Planting Seeds Soon
Get Your Garden Ready for Planting
It’s time to get started on the vegetable garden so we can grow our own healthy, organic food this year. Many of us have already started seedlings indoors to transplant out to the garden or the cold frames as soon as weather permits. Authors David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth, of “What’s Wrong With My Plant? … Continue reading Get Your Garden Ready for Planting