I just learned about a great publication on selecting landscape trees for Utah. It’s available from the USU Extension at: http://extension.usu.edu/files/natrpubs/nr460.pdf. It’s called “Selecting and Planting Landscape Trees”.
About three days ago, I started some cuttings from a pink geranium (pelargonium) that we had in a pot on the back deck last summer. It was a plant Emma’s primary teacher at church gave her. The plant has been in the basement all winter, and it keeps flowering. Doing quite well. So, I made…
Yesterday was a good gardening day. It was warm enough to work in a short sleeve t-shirt while pruning roses (ouch!). Here are things I accomplished in the garden: Pruned the Ruby Meidiland roses in front to about 18″ high. Planted the English daisies and pansies I bought last week along the front walkway. Cut…
You may have noticed my ongoing banana saga, with my recent update about how a flower started to appear on Christmas day. Sadly, it did not survive. And it wasn’t the freeze that killed it! On January 25th, we had a freeze that got down to about 30 degrees. I placed two radiant heaters under…
Back around mid-September, we had a strong string of storms and I stopped watering my lawn and gardens around September 11th. Every week, we had one or two good storms through about mid-October. But since then, we’ve hardly had anything. It had looked like it was going to be a cold winter, but then we’ve…
Now these are some *cool* flowers! Don’t you think? This is one of the Hibiscus moscheutos plants I have in large pots on my backyard deck. This one was much later to flower than the other this year, but it’s great to see multiple flowers opening up at once. My hunch is that they would…
I just came across an informative thread on bindweed at GardenWeb.com. It’s at: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rmgard/msg0510060716313.html?66 I get some bindweed in my garden, and in some places it’s a serious nuisance. It would be nice to find a website that has photos of all the weeds that grow in our area and how to fight them.