We garden fairies decided to do another guest post because once again Carol has left her laptop running while she’s off doing who knows what right now.If you see her, please let her know that the Labor Day weekend is the perfect time to finish mulching the flower beds and start pulling out non-producing plants in the vegetable garden. And oh yeah, she should not just mow the lawn this weekend, she should trim and mow.In the meantime, we garden fairies will be gathering up the tiny blooms of … [Read more...] about Mint Flower Discoveries: A Guest Post By The Garden Fairies
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I Confess To A Lapse Of Horticultural Judgment
I am about to confess that there is another member of the Umbelliferae family in my garden.But before I do, a quick review.In my last blog post, I confessed that I had somehow inadvertently removed, hoed under, or dug up all the dill, cilantro, carrots, and parsnips in my garden in my zealous quest for a weed free garden, and that these plants are all members of the Umbelliferae family of plants.Now I confess that I planted Aegopodium podograria ‘Variegatum’ in one contained little spot in my … [Read more...] about I Confess To A Lapse Of Horticultural Judgment