YES, WE HAVE A ‘WOO-WOO’ DEPT. HERE at A Way to Garden, but when I say “deep” in this post I’m not talking about that at all (for once). I’m talking tomatoes, and how to plant them, since it’s almost time. See how:
what ‘deep’ means (to a tomato)
May 13, 2008 at 6:42 pm
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a glossary of favorite lilacs
May 12, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I AM HALFWAY THROUGH a long season of lilac blooms that started before the first of May this year and looks to have another 10 days to go, weather depending. Meet the gang (wish I had scratch-and-sniff technology here for you).
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- Syringa vulgaris ‘Agincourt Beauty’
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- Syringa vulgaris ‘Little Boy Blue’
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- Syringa vulgaris ‘Sensation’
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- Syringa hyacinthiflora ‘Blanche Sweet’
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- Syringa vulgaris ‘Marie Frances’
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- Syringa vulgaris ‘Wedgwood Blue’
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- Syringa vulgaris ‘Avalanche’
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- Syringa vulgaris
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- Syringa hyacinthiflora ‘Mount Baker’
i’ll show you mine if…
May 12, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I‘LL SHOW YOU MINE IF… (and actually, I have been doing so, with regularity). My garden, that is. I’d like to see yours, too. That’s one of the reasons we chose the platform we did for our Urgent Garden Question Forums, so you could upload your photos and we could play Show and Tell (and not the kind where I do all the showing and all the telling). Why not give it a try today?
and how are his LEAVES?
May 11, 2008 at 8:46 am
YOU KNOW THE WAY A BEST FRIEND wants to know the details of your latest intrigue, based on whatever the friend likes most about objects of intrigue herself. (Forgive me, gentlemen; just swap all the pronouns in this post to suit.) “How are his manners?” she’ll ask, and “His sense of humor? His smile?” Here’s what I’d ask if I were your best friend and you had your eye on someone new, especially in the perennial department: How are his leaves? It’s leaves after all that dictate a plant’s character, hanging on as they do longer than most any flower. When you go plant shopping be sure to ask the all-important question: How are his leaves? (Agastache foeniculum ‘Golden Jubilee’ and Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’ have nothing to worry about in my way of thinking. Who cares if these hotties ever bloom?)
shall we take another walk?
May 10, 2008 at 11:00 am
THE RAIN HAS DRIFTED AWAY and so I thought we’d take another walk, yes? More areas of the garden are coming alive gradually, so let’s go see. (If you didn’t come along last time, you can always backtrack, by the way. The beauty of the internet: It’s realtime, or anytime.) Click images for the best views.
lilac pruning (and perfuming)
May 9, 2008 at 11:48 am
WHEN LILACS IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM…is the time to prune, and to bring bundles inside to smell up the house. Learn the simple details to make the right cuts (and for cuts that last the longest possible time in a vase, too):
moving bulbs
May 9, 2008 at 8:12 am
WHEN ARE WE SUPPOSED TO MOVE BULBS that are simply in the wrong place, or have grown overcrowded? Elizabethsflowers asked specifically about her ornamental onions today on the forums, and it got me thinking.
peas need staking?
May 7, 2008 at 11:21 am
PERHAPS YOUR PEAS NEED staking? Plastic netting strung between a series of poles is fine for taller varieties. But if you listened (!!!) and planted peas that don’t need staking, as suggested, then maybe all you’ll need is a little pea brush. Basically this is just whatever branched twigs and trimmings you have left from winter cleanup or recent pruning, inserted into the row to “brush up” the shorter peas. I installed some such twigs today that I’d collected in my rounds…the start of this year’s brushing up, and yet another way to recycle in the garden. More twigs to come to make a wider, longer framework (and then come peas).
favorite (bawdy) primrose
May 6, 2008 at 7:55 am
THERE IS NOTHING PRIM about Primula kisoana, a tart and a thug rolled into one delightful package. Oh, how very yummy. The details: [read more…]
