POSTED BY KIM — Happy Halloween everyone! It’s a great day because the sun is shining and I will be nice and dry as I try to keep up with the kids tonight as we trick-or-treat.
Here are some pics of my very scary fairy garden. It doesn’t look that different from last year — I [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 31, 2009
Happy Halloween
October 30, 2009
A hummingbird feeder FOR YOUR FACE
POSTED BY KIM — I am not making this up.
Thanks to www.cuteoverload.com, a site dedicated to all things animal and cute, I was alerted to a new product called “The Wearable Hummingbird Feeder.”
This is a hummingbird HELMET — it goes on your head and covers your face and attracts hummingbirds to feed at a spot [...]
October 29, 2009
A sweet fall tableaux
POSTED BY KIM — I took my camera outside at work the other day (along with my umbrella) and noticed this beautiful combination of colors in the garden behind the gift shop. (That’s Maria and Wendy’s garden.) The red leaves from the Japanese Maple and the bright lime foliage from the Heuchera ‘Citronelle’ almost glow in [...]
October 27, 2009
I’ve got moss growing between my toes
POSTED BY KIM — It is raining — again (or I should say, STILL). So I’m going to take a break from the plant catalogues and the gray sky to focus on something more uplifting — fall color.
If you’ve visited Sugar Creek Gardens, you probably didn’t notice the maples that line the subdivision drive to the [...]
October 24, 2009
The world’s best mum: The classic ‘Clara Curtis’
POSTED BY KIM — I gave a talk the other day at the nursery about the beauty of the fall garden, and one thing I like to do is go out that morning before work and cut a sample of anything that’s blooming in my yard. There are still many flowers that put on a full [...]
October 23, 2009
Hydrangea ‘Invincibelle Spirit’ — the new pink ‘Annabelle’
POSTED BY KIM — All you hydrangea lovers have probably already heard about ‘Invincibelle Spirit,’ the world’s first pink ‘Annabelle’ hydrangea. You can’t open a magazine almost without seeing an ad for it, so we expect it to be a big big seller next year. I say “next year” because it hasn’t been released for [...]
October 22, 2009
My favorite winter shrub: Winterberry
POSTED BY KIM — When I was a “young” gardener, I didn’t care about winter interest. It was all about the flowers! I want blooms! Who cares about winter! But now that I’ve matured (no heckling, please), I think more and more about plants that are going to give me four seasons of interest. One of [...]
October 21, 2009
Update on the Kaleidoscope Abelia: Still fabulous
POSTED BY KIM — Here’s a picture I took a few days ago of one of my Kaleidoscope Abelias — the foliage is just starting to pick up its fall color. *How* *beautiful* *is* *that* *color* ?!?!
Many of us at Sugar Creek have an ongoing love affair with the Kaleidoscope because of its wonderful traits [...]
October 19, 2009
In other news: Chloe!
POSTED BY KIM — The good girl Chloe spent the weekend at the Reiss-Litton house. 8-year-old Maya decided to try her hand at dog training, so she discovered that if she held a small piece of cheese up, Chloe would jump to get it. They went through many pieces of cheese to get that one [...]
October 19, 2009
Bloomerang is still blooming
POSTED BY KIM — Here’s a picture of LILAC BUDS on the Syringa ‘Bloomerang’ that is planted in our garden here at Sugar Creek. Please note the date — Oct. 16 — and the temperature — 44 degrees! I can’t wait to see what this shrub does next year with a full growing season behind [...]
