how-to slideshow: wake up, cannas, wake up
OUT OF THE BASEMENT THEY CAME YESTERDAY, the cannas I’d stored after frost last fall. It’s easy to keep these [read more…]
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shacked up with big, tender farfugium
ITELL EVERYONE I LIVE ALONE, but true confession: I’m shacked up here with a big hunk of a Farfugium (and [read more…]
and you’re waking up NOW?
TWO POTS OF BEGONIA BOLIVIENSIS, the straight species behind the flashy ‘Bonfire’ cultivar that we’ve talked about so much this [read more…]
begonia of the week: ‘dragon wing’ red
I HAVE SO MANY BEGONIAS IN MY CARE OVER HERE, I could probably do a ‘Begonia of the Week’ series [read more…]
what’s cooking in your pots?
I AM DOING SOME SLIGHTLY LATE POT-PLANTING, piecing together plants gathered from here and there this spring into some impromptu [read more…]
everybody into the pool, er, pots
AT MY PLACE EVERY MANNER OF PLANT CAN GO IN POTS: annuals, perennials, young trees, shrubs. And some of the [read more…]
hosta pot? why not!
FOR SEASON-LONG COLOR in containers, true annuals (like marigolds or petunias or zinnias) aren’t the only answer. I always keep [read more…]
pansies i have loved
IN MY NORTHERN GARDEN it is pansy-planting time, meaning the nurseries are filled with flats of pansies and violas, and [read more…]
