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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
HI all. A few years ago we had a program by Joanna Booth on Florida wildflowers. Her nursery, Salter Tree and Herb Farm cultivates native wildflowers and collects seeds for various purposes, one of which is to supply the Florida Department of Transportation with seeds to disperse on Florida’s roadways. Joanna recently sent me an [...]
It’s been too hot and humid this summer to get out and do that necessary pruning, to keep up with growth in our Tallahassee gardens. Thanks to Storm Fay, that was taken care of for me. Once she leveled the perennials, it was just a matter of going out with a heavy hand and releasing [...]
The pink guara (Onagraceae Guara lindheimen), a native of Texas, is a great perennial for a butterfly garden. Hardy and drought tolerant, this bushy shrub has small pink flowers shaped like butterflies. The one shown below was about 2 feet tall at the time of planting (March 2008). Now, it’s taller than me! This plant [...]