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Cucamelon Harvest and Recipes
Wandering through the vegetable garden sometimes make me anxious. There is always so much to do and remember. Prune the tomatoes, check the tomatoes to see if they are ripe, pick the ripe tomatoes, find something to do with the excess tomatoes, find...
Hydrangea Drama Continues
In my last post, I decided (while writing it) that maybe hydrangeas were not so ‘ho hum’. In fact, I came up with so many that it should really be split into two posts so, as promised, here is the ‘rest of the story’ starting with my collection from...
Hydrangeas, Ho Hum?
At best, I have a tenuous relationship with hydrangeas. Sometimes I love them and sometimes they seem like a boring old grandma shrub with little to bring to the garden. But just this week I was going through the upper shade garden and surprise, surprise...
Blueberries for All Seasons
As I continue to think about design in the vegetable garden I can’t help but think about the great design opportunities with the new varieties of Blueberries. The great thing about designing with blueberries is the year-round color and growth in the...
Color in the Vegetable Garden
We have all seen great pictures and even visited designed vegetable gardens. Some great potager, or kitchen, gardens are famous for their beautiful symmetrical designs. My kitchen garden sports simple raised beds in a fairly linear design. I’m planning on...
Just Breathe
Summer is creeping up slowly. Hard to imagine that the 15th of June was raining, blowing, and 52. Sometimes you have to just wait without railing against the weather and just enjoy. Some things were very unhappy in the garden. The tomatoes think they got transplanted...
Growing In My Greenhouse
Often, I find myself loving a plant that is hard to find. I also really want to put unusual garden worthy plants into the designs I do. I started last year to grow some of the things I love to use in my own greenhouse. While I may not be an experienced grower, I can...
Mother’s Day Garden
Not to be outdone by the Easter Garden the grand-kids in Illinois (zone 6a) planted a garden with their mom for Mother’s Day. Let’s join Kristen for a quick tour… We started prepping our garden back at the end of April. If we wanted to we could call our little...
My Holy Grail: Paeonia Mlokosewitschii, Molly the Witch Peony
I often wonder if I’m the only gardener who has a ‘holy grail’ plant. That one plant that is always eluding you, hard to find, hard to grow, and hard to get a grower to part with. Mine became an obsession over 20 years ago while working at Harlow Carr Botanical Garden...
Garden Progress
It is almost the end of the 3rd year of Gardening at Beach Road house. It is amazing to look back on the last three years and see how the garden is developing. I do much of the work myself so, even though I know a guy, I don't have the luxury of paid help except...
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