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!
Garden Album I got a call about a month ago from a writer working for Utah Valley Magazine who saw this blog and wanted to do a story on gardening in the valley. As part of that discussion, I set up a Google photo album so she could see some of my favorite photos of…
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)….
All right — the growing season begins! I started my seeds today that I’m going to grow in the basement until I set the plants out in the garden in May. Here’s the list of what I started today: California poppy ‘Summer Sorbet’ – seeds from Thompson & Morgan Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Double Click’ – seeds from Thompson…
This is the first time I’ve grown green beans, and they turned out pretty good. I harvested most of them on Sunday, October 5th. They were planted on July 23rd, so that made 74 days till harvest. The package said they’d be ripe in 60 days, but I imagine the cold nights have slowed them…
I’ve had a few unusual problem this year, and I think it was caused by a late freeze after a warm week. First, I noticed that one of my Golden Rain trees had tiny new leaf shoots that died and got crispy. The leaves at the top of the tree were OK, but all the…
Here’s a response to that GardenWeb.com posting from someone who lives in zone 6 in New Jersey: RE: Camellias in Zone 6 (Utah)? Posted by: ermazi z6, NJ. (My Page) on Tue, Mar 21, 06 at 17:23 April series could be what you need. However, they do not flower from Jan. to March in zone 6,…
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!