Park Seed: Blue Fescue
Park Seed has a good-looking variety of festuca glauca: Park Seed: Blue Fescue – A perennial Blue Fescue with 12-inch silvery foliage.
Park Seed has a good-looking variety of festuca glauca: Park Seed: Blue Fescue – A perennial Blue Fescue with 12-inch silvery foliage.
It’s the first weekend of November (well, it was when I started writing this!), and it’s time to clean up some of the summer annuals and veggies and plant some winter veggies and flowers. It feels good to be planting something again! And it’s great to live in a place where winter plantings are even…
To the list of things blooming now, I would add: Blue Flax, which is a remnant of our wildflower mix. We left quite a few of those bunches up in our Aspen tree area. Our lilac bush, which is a little later than most around here. We have a Korean lilac (‘Miss Kim’ I think)….
I’ve been laboring under the delusion that I was growing a Rocky Mountain Maple from seed I collected up American Fork Canyon. Well, I now think this is probably just a lousy Box Elder tree. It’s awfully similar to the small Box Elder I was growing in a pot until someone at GardenWeb identified it…
This is the upper part of my backyard today, experimenting with a stitched-together panoramic shot. I also took some other photos of things blooming or looking good in my garden. Too many pictures to comment on right now (it’s late at night!), so I’ll just add them all as a gallery below. What do you…
These are Prairie Fire Crabapples in my front yard — two of the coolest trees I’ve ever had! I love their display in April and May. It seems like their bloom season was too short this year, and it might have been the dry weather we had and the fast rise in temperature last week….
Wow! After living here for seven winters, this one just seems to stretch on and on and on! We’ve had snow on the ground constantly since mid-December, if I’m remembering right; that’s almost a month-and-a-half of snow on the ground. In past winters, the snow has always melted within two days after a storm, except…