Life is good in my vegetable garden, duly named The Vegetable Garden Cathedral. In a few days, I'll be picking shelling peas and there are snow peas ready to pick now. Long-time readers, I mean from …
Foxglove – A sign of garden fairy activity in the garden
Digitalis grandiflora Dear Hortense, Do you have foxglove growing in your garden? I have large yellow-flowered foxglove, Digitalis grandiflora, growing in my garden. It's right in the middle …
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There’s magic in a clover lawn
There's magic in a clover lawn. You can carefully pick the flowers and tie them together to create a tiara fit for a queen and then you are suddenly the Queen of the Garden. And all the garden …
Garden fairies take over for Wildflower Wednesday
Nemophila maculata Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are once again called upon to take over this blog and provide some useful information for the fine readers who come here looking …
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Double Flowering Mock Orange Defies the Odds in My Garden
A double-flowering mock orange, Philadelphus 'Buckley's Quill' has defied the odds and continues to grow in my garden In my garden, the double-flowering mock orange is hidden behind some other …
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I’m sending my houseplants to Club Hort for the summer
Not houseplants, just cut flowers from my garden I am sending my houseplants to Club Hort for the summer. Normally, they stay in the sunroom and never leave for anything. But not this year. This …
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