The Cambodian Queen is having her moment
Plants
Epimediums
The fall mums haven’t even bloomed and yet I’m here, living solidly in the moment, thinking about springtime epimediums….
Highlights: September 2023
Was it a good year for gardening? Nah. It was hot, it was humid, and oh, stuff happened. It rained constantly, was always raining. Three straight months of complaining, oh my god, the complaining. Please shut up with the complaining. (Whispers: sorry, that was me.) Plants don’t sweat, wear bras, […]
August 2023 Week 3 Highlights
Glorious in the garden right now. It has its moments, and it definitely has its moments where nothing much is going on and there’s like two things in bloom and they’re being eaten by army worms or Japanese beetles but then there are these moments like this one in mid-August, […]
Garden Journal 7/13/2023
Harvested three pounds of currants and first chanterelles and black trumpets of the yesterday. Planted seeds: daikon, romaine, chard, beets, scallions, mizuna. Started seeds in flat for fall crop: broccoli and broccoli raab; some form of bok choy; something else that I am forgetting… Propagating cuttings of: Jackmanii clematis, aralia, […]
Daffodils 2023
I grow a lot of daffodils–I wasn’t always a fan, but they don’t get eaten by rabbits or deer (no tulips here). They can be used to prevent voles from eating root systems of other plants. Hellebores work well for that purpose too, in shady areas. Slideshow and a table […]
Orchid update
The cascading white one on the left has been blooming since New Year’s Day. So elegant:
First of the seed starts
Did the first indoor sowing six days ago. Irresponsibly early but the heart wants, etc. No pretty pictures yet because they’re mostly in plastic produce containers and Ziplock bags secured by binder clips and it’s not an elegant look. So here’s above is of the artichokes started a few weeks […]
In which orchids submit to my will
Just kidding, they are arbitrarily doing whatever, just like always, except this time it’s *blooming*. My five phalaenopsis orchids have limped along for years, not doing much of anything, certainly not blooming, and the two that I rescued from Lowe’s out of pity have never shown much gratitude, (not that […]