Short version of this post if you are pressed for time... PanAmerican Seed sent me several new annuals that are coming out in 2024 to trial in my garden this summer. I'm giving at leat one of …
I Will Never Need to Buy Seeds for These Plants Again
Let's give a shoutout for relatively well-behaved self-sowing plants in the garden, shall we? Buy the seeds once and you'll never need to buy them again! With virtually no effort on my part, …
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Zinnia Thief on the Loose!
There's a zinnia thief on the loose! This morning I filled up some gallon jugs with water, tossed them onto the bed of my truck and then drove up to the entrance of my neighborhood to water the …
This Flower is Going to Go Up in Flames!
This flower is going to go up in flames, metaphorically speaking of course. This is Celosia 'Flamma Orange' and I grew it from seeds sent to my by the National Garden Bureau. It's an All-America …
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Wabi-Sabi Gardening
The all-knowing, all-seeing, all-spying internet algorithms pointed me toward a video last week that explained a little about the concept of wabi-sabi. So why not relate it to gardening? The …
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Viola Brainerd Baird
I spent some time a while back searching various bookseller sites on the internet to find just about every book ever published about violets, pansies, and violas. I think I have most of them now, …
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