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.
Park Seed has a good-looking variety of festuca glauca: Park Seed: Blue Fescue – A perennial Blue Fescue with 12-inch silvery foliage.
Wow! After living here for seven winters, this one just seems to stretch on and on and on! We’ve had snow on the ground constantly since mid-December, if I’m remembering right; that’s almost a month-and-a-half of snow on the ground. In past winters, the snow has always melted within two days after a storm, except…
Some of my seeds are sprouting after only one day. This method with the moist paper towels is awesome! Especially when combined with a hot pad — things can happen quickly. The white coneflowers are definitely sprouting — several had little “tails” poking out. And they’re supposed to take 10-21 days to germinate. The cosmos…
All things must come to an end, it seems. My time in this half acre of paradise was good. I had eight years of watching my new landscape come to life, establish and evolve, and develop its own unique personality. Gardens are metaphors for so many things in life, and this one was no exception….
Today, I ordered seeds for two annuals from Thompson & Morgan. They are: California poppy ‘Summer Sorbet’ – pink flowers instead of the typical orange Cosmos ‘Double Click’ – a double-flowering cosmos I was reading some reviews at Dave’s Garden on the weekend, and it looks like people have a love-hate relationship with Thompson &…
All the Hibiscus shrubs have burst into bloom this week. I love the one above — I think it’s Hibiscus syriacus ‘Aphrodite.’ I also have some double-flowered ones — they’re quite frilly and don’t really look like Hibscuses at all. Oh, and one more of the Aphrodite shrub, too: And I finally got my…
I’m growing a few flowers that I would not recommend, or at least I don’t want to grow them again. This is Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Double Click.’ I was pretty excited to grow it last spring when I ordered the seeds from Thompson and Morgan. I need to remember that Cosmos get mildewy very easy, even in…