Imagine my surprise when these giants showed up!
Finishing camassia with emerging irises. They might overlap by a day or two this year; we’ll see. It’s funny when you’re ordering plants you haven’t
I garden in Oak Park, IL (zone 6a); I started working primarily with perennial successions, but am now branching out, after ten years, into more annuals and vegetables.
Perennial is a combination of breast cancer memoir and garden romance, a sweet little chapbook of about 14,000 words of fiction and a dozen autobiographical poems.
“Can I help you?” The woman in the front section of Devan McLeod’s garden shop had been wandering aimlessly about the store for a full twenty minutes. Usually he tried not to pester the customers; after eleven years in America, he still hadn’t dropped all of his more reserved habits; his Scottish father had been the strong, silent type. But his Indian mother came from shopkeeper roots, and he could just hear her scolding him now. Take care of your customers, son, and they’ll take care of you. He really ought to Skype them; it’d been too long.”
Finishing camassia with emerging irises. They might overlap by a day or two this year; we’ll see. It’s funny when you’re ordering plants you haven’t
Camassia. They start blooming at the bottom of the spike, and slowly work their way up. The darker purple ones have finished already; the lighter
Purples and blues and whites. The alliums are starting to pop, the lilacs are in full flush. These lilacs aren’t as scented as I’d like,
Since people always ask, these planters are from Gardener’s Supply Co. Be sure to hang them with at least an inch or so of air
Baptisia, peacock bench, Spanish bluebells, Aryabhata, aka Master of All He Surveys.