Vegetable Garden 2009 #1
Amy’s May flower post reminded me that I need to post how our vegetable garden is coming along. I like to blog about it so we can keep a record of when we plant our garden and how it well … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Gardening
Colour my Spring Garden: Chartreuse
Helleborus argutifolius Chartreuse – a color half way between green and yellow. To me, it is the color of many young spring buds. Full of texture from smooth hellebore blooms to wrinkles of leaves. You can see it lightly painting … Continue reading →
Colour My Spring Garden: Blue
I love spring. It has arrived late this year here in Seattle. Normally by mid-April we should be into the prime tulip blooming time. But it has been cold and everything is two weeks late. I had an opportunity to … Continue reading →
Spring Menagerie
Spring Garden Planning
It is that time again. Time to start our seedlings for this year’s vegetable garden. We are going to change some of the items that we grew last year. Some things didn’t work well. We are going to try to … Continue reading →
Vegetable Garden Update
Favorite Spring Plant – Euphorbia
Euphorbia in Villefranche Euphorbias are a very unusual plants. There are over 2000 species worldwide in the genus, ranging from weedy annuals to trees. They originate mainly from tropical and desert climates of Africa. I saw many large tree specimen … Continue reading →
Favorite Spring Plant – Crocus
Crocus chrysanthus var. Blue Bird Crocuses or is it Croci? I love it when the crocuses bloom in our yard and fill the beds with Easter colors. I’m not too partial to the common gaudy large crocuses in purple and … Continue reading →
Favorite Spring Plant – Daphne mezereum
The seeds have arrived!
My seed order arrived on Saturday. That was quite quick. I place my order on Wednesday and the seeds arrived on Saturday. Territorial is located in Cottage Grove, Oregon which means they don’t have to come far but 3 days … Continue reading →