POSTED BY KIM — Oooh, the boss is out of town and Michael and I have been busy busy busy. Yesterday we planted four new trees at the nursery, and in 50 years, they’ll be spectacular! Maybe sooner than that.
We also planted along the drive (pictured above), and down by the entrance to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Perennials’
October 13, 2009
When the cat’s away, the mice will plant new gardens…
October 9, 2009
Everyone needs a turtlehead
POSTED BY KIM — Given this rainy weather, I think it’s appropriate for me to write about my turtlehead. If you have children or grandchildren, I think you need a turtlehead in your yard or you might be breaking the law.
Chelone lyonii loves the shade, loves the water (although if you don’t water — like me — [...]
October 7, 2009
Butterflies in the kitchen
POSTED BY KIM — Interesting things are always going on at my little house. I have two crazy kids, two crazy cats, two (new) dwarf hamsters, and butterflies in the kitchen. (Not to mention my husband — don’t get me started!
Every year my kids and I collect Monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars from [...]
October 1, 2009
The year’s best tomato
POSTED BY KIM — Oh, oh — you thought I meant the *fruit/veggie* kind of tomato. No, my garden’s best tomato this year was Echinacea ‘Tomato Soup.’ The pic above was taken this morning, so the flower’s a little wet, but look at that color — it’s like a SPOTLIGHT!
I’ve heard that Tracy DiSabato-Aust in [...]
September 29, 2009
For Caleb — Lady Tresses update!
POSTED BY KIM — Caleb and I have admired these Lady Tresses all summer — Spiranthes cernua var. odoratum. We both bought a few plants, and without reading the tag, threw them in the ground where they suffered dramatically. FINALLY, Caleb did a little research and told me that Spiranthes is a bog plant. I [...]
September 16, 2009
The year of the delphinium…at least in my garden
POSTED BY KIM — Delphiniums are one of those flowers that I would plant every year and they would die every year. So I would plant again…and they would die again. Maybe the fifth time is a charm, because THIS year, my delphiniums were the joy of my entire garden.
I planted a bunch last fall [...]
September 15, 2009
Powell Gardens, part 1
POSTED BY CALEB
We’ll visit Powell again in a few days…Keep your eyes open.
September 12, 2009
Maria and Wendy beautify a Sugar Creek garden bed
POSTED BY KIM — We’ve been showing the ol’ Sugar Creek some love, painting the sign, planting up some garden beds, cleaning house, etc. This bed is an oldie but a goodie — the big old hosta bed on the east side of the house/gift shop. The hostas are still there, in all their glory, [...]
September 11, 2009
My favorite garden bed
POSTED BY KIM — …is also the simplest. Coincidence? One thing I learned in my design classes was to simplify the number of plants that went into a bed or planting. I remember the instructor saying things like “You can’t have 30 different plants in a small bed like that!” I don’t normally [...]
September 10, 2009
Harvesting chinese lanterns
POSTED BY KIM — Out with the old, in with the new. I have that thought in my garden all the time — especially this time of year, when some plants are looking, shall we say, pretty skanky.
I just harvested my chinese lanterns, Physalis alkekengi, which left a big empty spot in the front of [...]
