I’m just going to own this: I do way too much of this kind of thing. That represents a lot of work up there at the end of the season when I am simultaneously packing up and bringing in new plants and dividing and it winds up somewhat exhausting. Also […]
(I struggled with image classes on this post and think I fixed them but apologies if a later update blows out my edits. I’ll fix it. Eventually.) Above: Bottle gentians, blue, late blooming, good cut flowers–in particular with late flowering orange and yellow daisy-shaped flowers and dahlias. Native. Allegedly attractive […]
The Cambodian Queen is having her moment
The fall mums haven’t even bloomed and yet I’m here, living solidly in the moment, thinking about springtime epimediums….
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, […]
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, […]
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, […]
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.
The cascading white one on the left has been blooming since New Year’s Day. So elegant: