Park Seed: Chives
Hey, here’s another idea: Chives. Nice grassy clump, but also has cool flowers and can be used for cooking. Might want some of these. Park Seed: Chives – Chives is the essential kitchen herb.
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.
High Country Gardens
High Country Gardens is a great source for info and photos of ornamental grasses that grow well in the west. I might find a variety on this site and then look for seeds somewhere else, since HCG is expensive. Drought Tolerant Plants, Perennials, and Xeriscaping for Western Gardens
Bought seed starting supplies
I bought some seed starting supplies at Wal-Mart tonight: a 72-cell “Jiffy” system that has the peat disks that you water and then they expand so you can plant seeds in them. We’ll see how it works. Also got 50 of the little miniature peat pots that I need to fill with potting soil and…
Upgraded to WordPress 2.0
Well, I upgraded the blog today to WP 2.0, and it seems to be working fine. I’m going to test whether the plugin that allows me to upload a photo is working well. Here we go: This is a photo from last year in April, when wind was bending the tulips at Temple Square in…
Thompson & Morgan catalog
The Thompson & Morgan seed catalog arrived this month. It’s an awesome catalog, and it has so much information on each plant that you can use as a quick reference for many plants in your garden. I have ordered from them, and the seed is always great quality. They have some interesting varieties you often…
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.
Icy driveways
Well, we finally got some snow again this week. Had a good six inches or so to shovel off the driveway on Thursday morning. But what was even more impressive was a few days before that — the snow wasn’t terribly deep, but it got really icy. Our backyard neighbor, Wade, had driven up our…