Plant news for your garden
Inspired by Silvia’s August 1 post and the September/October issue of The American Gardener, I simply had to add two Sedums to my garden this week-end.
This ‘Autumn Fire’ is still small, but it looks healthy and I will put it in one of my borders in the coming weeks. Literature describes it as an ‘improved [...]
I primarily spend time with two forms of life: cats and plants. Cats get the majority of time because of demanding health issues. I long for my plants, but this summer was VERY dry so an overall malaise fell over the plants ~ hard to put your finger on, but plant life wasn’t brilliant (to [...]
“An Evening in the Garden with Dr. Allan Armitage”, yesterday at the UGA trial gardens (Athens, Georgia, USA) was not outstanding, but nice enough. It would have been nicer if there had been some tables and chairs in strategic places (or anywhere), especially around the improvised stage where “Sonny Got Blue” was performing admirably.
But never [...]
When plants don’t produce the color you want to see in your landscape, what do you do? Well, you introduce brightly painted washtubs, of course!
This picture was taken this morning at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and the plants in the washtubs are Lantana. Nice accents, but will washtubs now become the trendy containers?
As summer is winding down in North Georgia (today’s high temp is “only” 89F, 32C), insects are everywhere, spinning cocoons, laying eggs and birthing babies. I’ve posted a few photographs on The Accidental Gardener. Here are a few more.
Karen, this Zingiber ‘Midnight’ is for you! It grows in the conservatory of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and its very dark, glossy leaves attract everyone’s attention. The photograph does not do it justice, I’m afraid, so you will just have to take my word for it!
I have no idea how many Hibiscus varieties grow in Georgia, but there are lots of them! In Athens, at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia I came across this ‘Summer Snow’ yesterday, a tall, stately plant that looked spectacular in a border with soft-color shorter plants.
The heat (everywhere) causes confusion ! It has been hard on some plants, other have been lovin’ it but the WEEDS have REALLY been loving it. I have to admit I pulled out a four footer … You have to look at weeding like Rodin used to view carving stone. He believed the completed sculpture [...]
While most of the country gets used to the summer heat, here in the usually mild PNW, we feel like everything around us is more normal if we have some cool weather and some rain.
In the winter time some Northwesterners go South to warm up but a real Northwesterner heads north in midsummer just to [...]
Another day of above 90F temperatures (yesterday it got up to 97, today it’s supposed to top out at 96) and no end in sight.
There are clearly success stories in my garden, but nothing seems quite “normal” this year. Even the spiders are confused about the season; I don’t remember ever seeing this gorgeous variety [...]