I’m going to be rich!While out and about at a few garden centers this past week, I found corms for Autumn Flowering Crocus, Crocus sativas.Crocus sativas is none other than the source for saffron, the …
A Few Thoughts on Pansies
Pansies and violas are the bookends of the outdoor gardening season. I plant them first thing in the spring and last thing in the fall.Wait, that’s not quite right…Pansies are the genesis and exodus …
Did You Hear the One About the Toad Lilies?
Did you hear the one about the two toad lilies, Tricrytis sp., that hopped into my cart as a cruised very quickly through the big box hardware store?True story, it happened just yesterday. I was kind …
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Hortotropism at the Old Mill in Pigeon Forge
You won’t find a definition for hortotropism in a dictionary, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In fact, if you are a gardener and more than once you’ve struck up a conversation with a gardener …
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When A Gardener Visits The Smoky Mountains
When a gardener visits the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, she finds wildflowers blooming including this cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis. And she wishes she had gotten some seeds for these …
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – September 2009
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for September 2009.Now that it is mid September, I'm starting to hear the tiny little whispers of Fall, which wants to make the garden its own.It starts with a …
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