http://www.katesgardenjournal.com Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:19:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/country-garden-plants/ 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/summer-arrived/ Sunday was warm and muggy but cool enough in the morning that I could get out and tidy some of the back garden. Himself came to help. Sometimes husbands and kids are more of a hinderance to keeping the garden tidy, then a help. In his vigor to pull out seedling ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/garden-helpers-not/ 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/red-white-and-blue-day/ The fragrant gardenia bloom [caption id="attachment_509" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="This makes a lovely place to sit in the summer"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/gardenia-season-is-here/ 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/new-orange-toys-er-tools/ 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/a-comparison-of-herbicides/ 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/saturday-morning/ 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/historic-daffodils-in-their-garden/ 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 ... http://www.katesgardenjournal.com/grocery-gardening/