Plants

Disanthus
Natives, Plants

2024 Fall Foliage highlights

A few favorites. I may add more to the post later in the season, when January and the desire to do literally anything with gardening becomes unmanageable. These are a mix of natives and non-natives. (I’m writing up some thoughts on the native/non-native plant discourse; I’ll update with a link […]

pink epimedium
Plants

Epimediums

The fall mums haven’t even bloomed and yet I’m here, living solidly in the moment, thinking about springtime epimediums….    

Mixed border
Plants

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, […]

Plants

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, […]

Blue hydrangea with bee
Kitchen Garden, Plants

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, […]