Do you know what you call tree seedlings that come up all over the garden?Tree-weeds.Yes, they are weeds. But there are some gardeners who get all “funny” about pulling tree seedlings as weeds, …
In The Fall, Red Rules in My Garden
Do you plan for fall color in your garden?I have so much red in my garden right now, that I'm going to claim I planned it that way! Who would know otherwise?Forget that I don't really like red …
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Remembering Other Frosty Days at May Dreams Gardens
Today we had a killing frost.A year ago today, we had a killing frost.What are the chances of having a killing frost like that on the same day, two years in a row?I don’t know, as I don’t have the …
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Other Colors Revealed
Botanists tell us that the fall leaf colors, those yellows, oranges, and reds, are in the leaves from the beginning but are masked by the green of chlorophyll for the duration of the growing …
Bloomin’ Crabapples!
Crabapples blooming in the fall?I would not have believed it, had I not noticed two crabapple trees, in two different locations, blooming this past week.Some spring flowering trees and shrubs will …
It’s An Infestation!
Following a certain self-imposed etiquette of garden blogging, I am putting the picture of the horrifying MAGNOLIA SCALE INFESTATION here at May Dreams Gardens at the end of this post. The picture of …
