(Via Gardening Question of the Day (from the Old Farmer's Almanac))

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-01-19, 20:00:00

Do you have any ideas for keeping raccoons out of my garden? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

(Via An Iowa Garden)

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-01-19, 13:45:00

Being in the habit of saying whatever's on your mind is like having a loaded shotgun in your car trunk... they both make for an uneven life. For example: over the years I've made quite a few garden friends, but more than one has fallen by the wayside... there is a very active hosta club here in town, and I was walking about with one of the true hostaphiles from that group, and he asked me why I had never joined. I just popped out with my feeling about hostas... that they are kind of like those large, abstract art prints that you buy at the furniture store; you never really look at them but buy them just to make a spot of color in that dark back hallway that leads to the bathroom. He was not amused.
Now, I admit I've got an awful lot of different hostas in the garden considering how flippant I seem to be about them, and some of these hostas are really getting nice as they've gotten larger. Yet, there isn't a one of them that I can truly say I'd feel overly bad about if it turned up its toes; I think there are just too many hosta varieties that look too much alike... I'd just plug another hosta in the blank spot and get on with it.
At least I don't discuss politics in this blog.

(Via An Iowa Garden)

Posted by admin to Uncategorized on 2008-01-19, 13:45:00

Being in the habit of saying whatever's on your mind is like having a loaded shotgun in your car trunk... they both make for an uneven life. For example: over the years I've made quite a few garden friends, but more than one has fallen by the wayside... there is a very active hosta club here in town, and I was walking about with one of the true hostaphiles from that group, and he asked me why I had never joined. I just popped out with my feeling about hostas... that they are kind of like those large, abstract art prints that you buy at the furniture store; you never really look at them but buy them just to make a spot of color in that dark back hallway that leads to the bathroom. He was not amused.
Now, I admit I've got an awful lot of different hostas in the garden considering how flippant I seem to be about them, and some of these hostas are really getting nice as they've gotten larger. Yet, there isn't a one of them that I can truly say I'd feel overly bad about if it turned up its toes; I think there are just too many hosta varieties that look too much alike... I'd just plug another hosta in the blank spot and get on with it.
At least I don't discuss politics in this blog.

(Via Snappy's Gardens Blog)

Posted by admin to hellebore niger on 2008-01-19, 00:36:00

Guess what flowered on my second night of four? The Christmas rose has flowered, on three out of six plants. Do they talk to each other in a Hellebore huddle? Ok today we three will flower at the same time.
I was outside checking the garden with bleary eyes. The white cup flower glows ghostlike in the morning light, with golden centres.
I will photograph them after nights in good light.I hope all your gardening weekends are good. I am waiting for the African Bag Gardens to be delivered hopefully today.
Good things come (Or Three flowering Hellebores) to those who wait :)