I counted all my seedlings this evening, and here is what I have: 34 Coreopsis grandiflora ‘Mayfield Giant’ 10 Salvia nemorosa ‘East Friesland’ 62 Echinacea purpurea, a white variety, possibly ‘White Swan’ but not sure. That is, if they come out true from seed. It’s possible some will be purple or maybe even a very […]

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 […]

Yesterday at Home Depot, I bought some flowers (my daughter Hannah was with me and she complained that I must be addicted to gardening or something). I got some yellow and some purple pansies and some white and some pink-to-purple English daisies. I also bought two bare-root roses at Wal-Mart. The roses are a floribunda […]

Earlier this week, I took the jiffy pellets with the white coneflower seeds and put them in a different tray that’s on the heating pad and is still covered. That did the trick, and within seven days, many of them are sending out roots now. The salvias are finally starting to grow more, so they […]

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, […]

I just installed an online task list for my garden tasks. It’s cool. Click the link on the sidebar to see it. There are a lot of things I need to do in the next few weeks! My seeds and seedlings are coming along well. I put some new white coneflower seeds on some of […]

Today, I took the lid off the tray with cosmos seedings. I’ve been propping it up for three or four days to allow some airflow and to accommodate the tall seedlings that were starting to hit the cover. So far, the seedlings are handling it well.

Last fall, I took some cuttings from my Japanese maples and put them in cups of water with willow cuttings. The willow branches are supposed to release a rooting hormone into the water. I left them in the water all winter. Some got a bit moldy or mildewy. Today, I dipped them in rooting hormone […]