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Growing Annual Vines in Pots
Over the past three years I’ve been growing various annual vines in containers, trying about 6-8 different varieties of the most commonly found annual vines, each year. As you may have discovered...
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My Surprising Nicotiana Trial Results
A border of 5 foot tall nicotiana after my interesting trial that I conducted to test various cultural methods to see if I could get better results from what is typically a ho-hum flower. We,...
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Salpiglossis Techniques and Trials
My 2022 Salpiglossis trial was an incredible success. My last post, (which was surprisingly this past February) proves not only how busy I’ve been, but how time can fly by. First, just so you know –...
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A Comprehensive review of all the wrong ways to grow Salpiglossis found on...
Maybe you’ve never noticed it, but a lot of information found on the internet is sometimes incorrect. After spending a week researching how to grow salpiglossis, or Bearded Tongue, an old fashioned...
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Looking back as well as toward the future
In July the garden never looked so green, thanks to a month of record rainfall that proved to be a curse more than a gift. 2021 proved to be a record breaking year wherever one gardens. While...
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Growing Cup and Saucer Vines
The annual vine known as the Cup and Saucer vine is beloved by many gardeners. Their large, cup-shaped purple or white blossoms and their distinctive flaring corollas look very much like teacups. Many...
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Driveway Re-invention – Part 2
On the left in early April the driveway is nearly ready for landscape material. On the right just after planting in mid May. If you’ve been following along regarding the first phase of our big...
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Our Driveway Re-Invention Part 1
I know that people find it fascinating that I live and now garden in the house where I was born and where my father was born (he died in 2014 at a healthy 100). It not all that unusual, I think, in...
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Re-Thinking Scented Violets
An old print of women harvesting violets in the south of France. (Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol 18 No. 2) Great confustion exists not only amongst us gardeners about what is and what isn’t a...
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Artichokes in the North
I like to use the analogy of cooks vs. bakers when providing advice on annual artichoke culture. The fact is that artichoke culture isn’t exactly easy, at least in the north where few, if any of us...
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Summer Lilies and, Yes - Time to Think About Ordering Bulbs
'Bell Tower' is an appropraite name for this 'Downward Facing" Orienpet lily. This young bulb will grow into a giant in just a few more years, towering over 6 feet tall. The large flowers are very...
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Bill Noble's Spirit of Place Paints a Grand yet Personal Portrait
Spirit of Place is the ideal book for any plant lover or even, the serious plantsperson. While 2020 is turning out to be, at the very least, a rather stressful year for nearly everybody on our planet,...
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Springing Forth Against All Odds: Rare Annuals, and A Garden Update
My new border garden is about 60% complete, but like all good garden designs, development takes time. This urn is temporary until I find the right (and affordable) object to center the design, and the...
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Summer Lilies and, Yes - Time to Think About Ordering Bulbs
'Bell Tower' is an appropraite name for this 'Downward Facing" Orienpet lily. This young bulb will grow into a giant in just a few more years, towering over 6 feet tall. The large flowers are very...
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Bill Noble's Spirit of Place Paints a Grand yet Personal Portrait
Spirit of Place is the ideal book for any plant lover or even, the serious plantsperson. While 2020 is turning out to be, at the very least, a rather stressful year for nearly everybody on our planet,...
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Springing Forth Against All Odds: Rare Annuals, and A Garden Update
My new border garden is about 60% complete, but like all good garden designs, development takes time. This urn is temporary until I find the right (and affordable) object to center the design, and the...
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Book Giveaway - Jennifer Jewell's 'The Earth is in Her Hands'
Jennifer Jewell's 'The Earth is in Her Hands' offers readers insight into the backstories and inspiration behind 75 of the most extraordinary women in the world of plants today. You can find it...
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CULTIVATING OPTIMISM AND RESILIENCE WITH A VICTORY GARDEN
When I look at our storeroom in the cellar (cork-lined and full of canned goods that my mother who would have been 100 this year) I am reminded about all of the hard work and purposeful growing that...
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Learning More About Growing Annual Poppies, and My New Book
Annual poppies are not easy to grow, at least not for most people. Oriental poppies? Much easier, as they are a long lived perenial. notoriously fussy about root disturbance, and like many...
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Two Outstanding Gardening Books for those Long, Winter Nights
Two rock stars of the gardening world have recently release significant works worthy of any gardeners bookshelf. Ken Druse's 'The Scentual Garden' and Amy Goldman's The 'Melon' will inspire, inform and...
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