May 31, 2008
the newest entourage
Filed Under annuals & perennials, cut flowers, hot p(l)ants, trees & shrubs | 3 Comments
BETWEEN WEEDING, WATERING, EDGING, MULCHING, I noticed there are some new things blooming…like several dozen. Here are a few of the latest faces watching me go positively mad as I try to keep up with the unfolding drama.
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- siberian irises
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- weigela 'wine and roses'
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- amsonia tabernaemontana
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- chionanthus virginicus
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- alliums
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- Rhododendron 'Swansdown'
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is it time to cry uncle yet?
Filed Under uncategorized | 17 Comments
I ADMIT IT, I am overwhelmed. Is it time to give up yet? This always happens to me when spring passes from promise to has-been, and the gardener passes from excitement to insanity. You? How are you holding up out there?
May 29, 2008
these newts are made for walkin’
Filed Under nature | 5 Comments
REMEMBER IN APRIL, when I inadvertently fished an Eastern Spotted Salamander out of one garden pool while cleaning it? He/she hasn’t been heard from since, but a smaller cousin, the Red-Spotted Newt, is here. My Pal Sal. Who knew that this red phase is actually just one stage of his little but longish life?
more tree trouble: crabapple woes
Filed Under nature, tools & techniques, trees & shrubs | 4 Comments
I KNOW MY CRABAPPLES WELL ENOUGH to know that 2 of 10 were not happy this spring at flowering time, and now I know why. My friend Dennis Mareb of Windy Hill Farm in Gt. Barrington, MA, a nurseryman and longtime apple-orchard owner, performed the diagnostics this week: not good. Apple-bark borer has found its way into at least two of the trees, and from the looks of things, they are goners.