There are some plants that yell -’ I belong in a country garden’. Phlox, monarda/bee balm and some salvias have that old fashioned feel to them. Alas my back garden is more tropical which does not include country garden plants. The previous owner did the country thing, and I am still trying to get rid [...]
Goodness June went fast. Part of the problem is that we are moving back to the north so I have a bunch of things to do and organize. The garden, alas has taken rather a back seat to all of this. That being said, I am sitting outside on a mild Sunday, July 4th updating [...]
Memorial Day celebrates the armed services, so I went in search of red, white and blue
Blue was not a problem – I have hydrangeas everywhere and they are are all standard mop head blue. Alice Morse Earle commented that the hillsides of Long Island looked like they were moldy when the hydrangeas were in bloom [...]
The fragrant gardenia bloom
The calendar shows the end of May and the official start of summer is celebrated. In the garden that is shown by the first flush of the gardenias. These dark green, glossy leaves make for a lovely evergreen bush, but the flowers are perfect! They are pure white and very fragrant which stand out [...]
My new orange tools with Pumpkin (well what else do you call an orange kitten you were given in October!)
Everyone knows that I like Fiskars tools as well as folks at the company, but lately I have taken to getting some new orange tools from Black and Decker.
I got the little chain saw a few [...]
With the house on the market and vines running rampant this year, I had to resort to good old herbicides to get control. Yes it was an admission of failure, but when over a barrel, you have to do some thing. So off to jolly Lowes went I to get those pesky little wooden window [...]
A little behind with the blog and so much has happened in the past couple of weeks. We are moving again, and the trials of that, I hope to record in a vblog The Corporate Gypsy – if I can figure out how not to look like a tight lipped old schoolmarm!
The radio show – [...]
Roswell has an abundance of old houses – some in the public domain, some events venues and a very few that are private. I was invited to one of those private gardens last week to view the daffodils with Sarah Van Beck, a historic daffodil specialist. Old gardens are one of my passions, along with [...]
This week on America’s Home Grown Veggie Show I am interviewing author Jean Ann Van Krevelen about her new book Grocery Gardening. The book goes through most of the common fruit, vegetable and herbs that you would pick up at the supermarket and tells you how to grow, cook and preserve them. This may seem [...]
The consensus is that the Atlanta area is botanically 2 weeks behind the normal for blooms this year. In many ways that is a positive because the early blooms do get zapped by frost so this gentle, cool spring is keeping things in check. On the other hand most folks are rather sick of cool [...]