I’ve learned to think ahead with my garden this year. I planned most of 2020 between November and February of this year. I got first dibs on all the seeds I wanted, but even then, I was late to the party getting a lot of the permaculture plants I was hoping to add. Last weekend, …
The tulips are going out in a blaze of glory with these towering yellow sentinels. Bleeding hearts bloom strongly, but I don’t quite see what’ll come next. Neighborhood Blooms Things are starting to thin out a bit in my beds, but the neighborhood is still going strong. The grape hyacinth in particular might be a …
Temperature is falling, the wind is blowing and we’ll get a freeze tonight. But the sun is out and the tulips are glorious. The forsythia still have a few petals, but they’re pretty much done and I think it’s the last week for daffodils. The new violets are blooming beautifully, more frustratingly, so the creeping …
The spring flowers have started to really shine and weeding has started for the year. Friday Flowers Gardening Update Prairie Bed The last plants are finally in. 21 purple prairie clover, little bluestem and indain grass have been added to the bed. I can see that I’ll want to add more to the bed this …
We didn’t have the best weather this week, but we made good progress just the same. We managed to put in some big things. One of which was rather huge. Friday Flowers Garden Update Food Hedge I still have one shipment outstanding, but all of my other perennials have arrived for this year’s plantings. We …
Like nearly every other house on every residential street in America, a strip of landscaping transitions my foundation into the lawn. This is the piece of landscaping that has received the most attention from me over the past few years. In 2009, I put in two forsythias and we’ve added in a collection of self-fertile …