Larry Sagers column: Exciting new plants for your garden
Larry Sagers has a new column in the Deseret Morning News on new plants:
deseretnews.com | Exciting new plants for your garden. The “Coral Rose” Diascia looks pretty cool.
Larry Sagers has a new column in the Deseret Morning News on new plants:
deseretnews.com | Exciting new plants for your garden. The “Coral Rose” Diascia looks pretty cool.
My Kwanzan (or Kanzan) cherries really came into bloom during the past four days or so. This one is the best of the three I have. Below you can see my row of sand cherries (flowering cherry shrubs) in peak bloom at the same time the Prairiefire crabapples are starting to bloom well. I don’t…
I found a nice thread at GardenWeb on long-blooming perennials. I definitely need to look at some of the plants mentioned. Here are some mentioned repeatedly: Savlia ‘May Night’. They say it goes for something like 18 weeks of bloom! Wow. ‘Walker’s Low’ Nepeta is also mentioned quite a bit. Geranium ‘Rozanne’ (a perennial, spreading,…
Since we got home from vacation a few weeks ago, things have been very busy! Plus, it’s peak garden time, and when I get a minute to spend on garden stuff, I’m out in the yard rather than on the computer. That’s how it should be, but OK, I finally found some time to post…
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…
First, meet my little garden buddy, McKay. He’s our cute, smart, hilarious two-year old. He’s fun to have along in the garden, although I often need to clean up the messes he makes, like today, when I swept the sidewalk off after he shoveled dirt all over it from a nearby flowerbed. But no problem,…
I wasn’t having any luck with the Lavatera seeds I harvested from my garden, so I thought I’d try again. This time, I soaked them for one or two days (can’t remember how long!), and then I put them in the moist paper towel in a little ziploc baggie. Good news! It’s working. Well, one…