My hostas are blooming right now, and the groundcover, Lamium maculatum, still has scattered blooms, but not as well as when it first bloomed in May.
I’m quite happy to see my Rocky Mountain Maple doing so well, too. This was grown from seed in 2006 and it’s just leaping in height this year!
I bought some seed starting supplies at Wal-Mart tonight: a 72-cell “Jiffy” system that has the peat disks that you water and then they expand so you can plant seeds in them. We’ll see how it works. Also got 50 of the little miniature peat pots that I need to fill with potting soil and…
My lawn has been very dry this month, and after greening up earlier in the month, it’s started getting brown spots again. I decided to turn on the lawn sprinklers last Friday evening. I gave it a full cycle for the lawn and the front flowerbed and then turned the system off. Before I use…
This summer, I have been extremely impressed with Lavatera tauricensis. This plant was not supposed to be hardy in my Zone 6 garden. I think it’s listed as a Zone 7 minimum. I had grown some in California, from seeds bought from Thompson & Morgan. The ones in California produced some seed, which I brought…
Oh my gosh! We have bananas forming right now, in the middle of winter! Many of you have seen my previous post about growing bananas in Sacramento County – it’s actually my most popular article lately, so apparently a bunch of you are considering it. And you should! It’s a fun plant to grow, and…
I had a lot of catching up to do on weeding and stuff today: Weeded the veggie garden (I still need to create some kind of trellis for the green beans, which are only about 3″ tall so far) Weeded some flowerbeds Mowed the lawn Picked a bunch of cherries from our second tree which…
I thought this photo was so cool it deserved more than a thumbnail. I love this tree! Everything about it is great — the way it looks, the amount of apples it produces, the wonderful flavor of the Granny Smith apples, everything. My favorite things in the garden are the fruit bearers — apples, cherries,…
Oh no. I hate to say this, but the more I look at that maple, the more I think it might actually be a box elder tree. Ugghh! I don’t want a stinking box elder tree!