Saturday, February 13
From the Goodwood Museums website:
(sales continue every Friday and Saturday morning thereafter until sold out)
Presented by the Goodwood Garden Volunteers
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Virginia McKee Greenhouse at Goodwood
Each year, volunteers from Goodwood, root Old Garden Roses for use on the grounds and for sale to the public. The proceeds from [...]
From the Goodwood Museum website:
Goodwood Museum and Gardens
Jubilee Cottage
Friday, February 4, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Free, No reservations required
By Fred Dietrich
Bluebirds were almost extinct in Tallahassee in the 1940ís when Fred Dietrichís family moved here for a teaching position at the newly co-ed Florida State University. But with recent conservation efforts by wildlife enthusiasts such [...]
January 16th will bring the first festival of the new year – the annual Crawfordville Arbor Day celebration at Hudson Park. Starting at 10am on Saturday, hundreds of free trees will be given away. This year’s trees are even larger than in previous years.
Choices will include Florida sugar maple, fringe tree, redbud, southern magnolia, bald [...]
Don’t forget to get your orders in for caladiums. You can visit the TGC website for all the details and an order form.
Read full post...I looooove Halloween! Can you tell? Here are some pics from my front yard decoration and instructions on some of the projects I made for it.
Giant (and Small) Garbage Bag Spider
Supplies
Black Garbage Bags
16 Gauge Wire (something finer for the small spider)
Wire Cutters
Duct Tape
Electrical Tape
For the small spider, create one circle hoop with wire. Place a [...]
Read full post...CNN.com posted a sort of random article on composting. It’s got a lot of helpful info if you’re just getting started. Link
Read full post...I know for some of us, every month is garden month, but April is officially National Garden Month! How will you celebrate it? The National Gardening Association has got some great ideas and articles, as well as helpful how-to videos. To celebrate National Garden Month, there’s also a contest you can enter to win a [...]
Read full post...On Mark Bittman’s NY Times blog Bitten, there’s an interesting article by Kerri Conan on keeping a garden log. She describes how she has kept garden logs that detail planting times and layouts. This is a great idea, I think, especially for a visual person like me. http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/tracking-the-garden/
Also, Gardener’s Supply has a great Kitchen Garden [...]
Here’s the result of some Jim West plants and a whole lot of sweat. This weekend, in an effort to reduce the size of my lawn, I expanded my front bed by about 50 square feet. This was the perfect time of year to remove the sod. Since it was still dead, it was like [...]
Read full post...It’s that time of year again! Jim West is having his spring plant sale at Lincoln High School. If you haven’t gotten your order form, here it is!
From Jim: We are excited to announce our first Spring Butterfly Plant Sale March 18 – 20 from 9:00 until 4:00 in the new Lincoln Park Garden.
As special [...]
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