Park Seed has a good-looking variety of festuca glauca: Park Seed: Blue Fescue – A perennial Blue Fescue with 12-inch silvery foliage.
Yeah! This is really a sad statement about life in Utah, but today the temp got up to 44 degrees, and it felt great!!! The forecast is for mid-40s all week, and I am so stoked about that! Bring on the spring, that’s all I have to say. Maybe if the ground thaws a little,…
I’ve had some success with cutting-grown Missouri Evening Primroses (Oenothera missouriensis, also called Ozark Sundrops). I made some cuttings last summer and planted the new clones out this spring. These do not seem to be invasive like their Mexican cousins, so I’m liking them a lot. Here’s an example of the annual Geraniums I planted…
I haven’t had much time to post lately, but my nectarines started coming ripe within the past week. I still have a bunch on the tree, and some are getting a little overdone, because I haven’t had time to pick them. But I’m going to pick them all tonight, unless there are still some green…
I posted on GardenWeb about whether I should plant in the ground this year my small clematis vines that I grew from cuttings. They’re still pretty small, although they started growing pretty well this year. Here’s my post and a response: I have some [clematis] I grew from cuttings taken when I pruned mine last…
Today, I ordered seeds for two annuals from Thompson & Morgan. They are: California poppy ‘Summer Sorbet’ – pink flowers instead of the typical orange Cosmos ‘Double Click’ – a double-flowering cosmos I was reading some reviews at Dave’s Garden on the weekend, and it looks like people have a love-hate relationship with Thompson &…
Earlier this week, I took my camera to work and took a walk to Temple Square during my lunch hour. I wanted to get a few shots of the long, narrow flowerbeds by the lawn between Temple Square and the church office building. I could use some ideas to make my long, narrow beds look…