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…
I don’t think I’ll go to another Thanksgiving Point garden mini-expo. It was much too basic. If you’re a guy like me who reads garden books and magazines and has tried a lot of things in the garden, there just wasn’t much to learn. They had people teaching who were trying to earn their master…
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 posted a message to Gardenweb.com to see what people think of these cold-hardy camellias. We’ll see what they say. Also, I found a nursery website with a lot of information about camellias, including cold-hardy ones. It’s Camellia Forest at http://www.camforest.com.
This is awesome! There are camellias that I can grow here in zone 6! I didn’t know that. Here’s one I really like: SPRING`S PROMISE ICE ANGELS(R) CAMELLIA
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…