Have I mentioned it’s crazy hot down here? The daylilies are among the few plants that honestly don’t mind much. Of course that could be due to the gigantic single-trunk crape myrtle that gives them some nice midday shade. This is Hemerocallis “Grape Ripples”: It is so choice. If you have the means, I [...]
My fren Caitlin says she wants to see the whooooole garden, and instead of telling her to drive her ass on down and have a look-see, I walk out back and snap a few pics. Because I work from home, yes I do. RULE. Here’s the main area: Up to the corner of the [...]
Out checking on the world this morning – yanno, like a gardener obsessed with weather/rainfall/pests/etc. often does – and noticed a disturbance in the Force… Or at least the mulch: Yeah, the new echinacea are blooming (that’s Tiki Torch on the left and Tomato Soup on the right), but who has been futzing around [...]
Pay attention, my fellow garden travelers, so you do not repeat my mistakes… For instance, read the package and if your tomato claims to be “indeterminate” avoid placing him in an elevated planter: Yeah, that topmost twiglet there is about 9 feet off the ground. Speaking of tomatoes, we’re growing some outside the protection of [...]
For pity’s sake, it went and got HOT. In typical Florida fashion, spring ended with a whimper a few weeks ago, leaving us with 90 degree highs and 70+% humidity. Just a walk outside in the morning leaves you dripping with sweat. And it makes your cucumbers cry like little babies. Ooh, my leaves are [...]
I promise there will be actual content here at some point, but we’ve got #1 son’s birthday coming up (plus two other family birthdays), end of school/vacation to plan, and Guilder to frame for it. I’m swamped! This is a zinnia, yes. After the mass “wildflower” plantings we did last year, I became utterly besotted [...]
I only discovered gazanias a couple of years ago, and will never be without them again. The seeds must be started in darkness, but other than that quirk they’re extremely easy to grow.
I, who never win nuttin’, have won the Shiba Guyz inaugural contest, by guessing most correctly (or randomly-picked-from-a-group-of-mostly-correct) the identities of these crazy seeds. They gifted me with a deuced nice gift certificate to Edible Gardens where I picked up this fun little Kid’s Garden kit. Now to find a place to grow it all… [...]
My fine Husband and tolerable children decided to take me on an early Mother’s Day excursion today: an excursion to a nursery (because I want nothing more than MOAR PLANTZ!!!) followed by the incomparable Bruster’s for an ice cream lunch. Knowing this in advance as I did, I set about searching for the local equivalent [...]
This crazy, stubborn gladiolus, growing up through the buttercup: I killed it last year with an overabundance of water, but it apparently lay there in the soil all winter, plotting its revenge. From, er, the center of the buttercups I stab at thee! Oooo…scary!
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