Monday Quick Chick Pic: Looky, Looky
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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Old donkey with flower friends
I saw her as I was walking back from the barn, the sun light ending it's day on her little oasis of flower acquaintances.I had to rush to get my camera, it was such a pretty site. When I returned...
How To Grow A Hen and Chick Plant = 3 Easy Steps
Hen and Chicks are beautiful little drought tolerant surprises that live in the corners of my garden. Everyone points them out and tells a story of Hen and Chicks and their mother or grandmother or...
Things I Wasn't Expecting To Do At Chelsea...
I got a view of the showground from on high (AND unlike lots of others I didn't queue - a benefit of getting there early to see Roy Lancaster on the Plant Heritage's fascinating Veitch exhibit...
National Tomato Week
Apparently Bristish Tomato Week starts today. So here are a couple of mine out frolicing in the garden in celebration ;)
graffiti geranium
Dont you just love all the fancy new geraniums? Last year I got a polka-dotted one, and this year a frizzly graffiti plant. Excuse the store pot, I havent got my patio pots together yet.
Planting by Degrees
ooking back in my garden notes for planting dates tells me, yes, I have planted some warm weather crops in mid-May, but its been awful hard to forget the sting of the last few cold, wet springs...
On thankless tasks
They say that 95% of goat births are uneventful. My percentages stand at 80% Sabines birth was not fun at all. Less than two weeks after that fraught event, Cricket calmed the waters by delivering...
Shovel ready
I don't mind stealing a phrase many others have used concerning the Asheville garden of Christopher Mello, visited by garden bloggers (our annual get-together) this past weekend.
Bleach Alternatives for Disinfecting Pruning Shears
Apples with fire blight: one reason you should disinfect pruning sheers. Photo by Peggy Greb Neighbor Anne tipped me off to an interesting fact sheet on disinfecting pruning sheers by Dr. Linda...
