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.
Just look at this Larkspur — doesn’t it seem to have an iridescent shine to you? And it’s so BLUE! It’s tough to find real blues in flowers. I admit this looks just a little more purple in real life, but this photo was not “photoshopped” or adjusted in any way (besides resizing). It does…
Rather than just letting your flowerbed go dormant in the winter, consider this — here in northern California, we can grow some fantastic winter flowers. It just takes a little planning ahead and sowing while it’s still warm. And hey, I get the fact that you may having some of that end-of-summer garden fatigue (too…
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Wow a whole month without posting! I am chagrined to have not posted here for all of August. I don’t have much time to put into it this year, since I’m working much of my free time doing construction in my basement (now shooting for finishing it within a month or so!). Anyway, here’s some…