Too sick to do all the gardening that rather desperately needs to be done, so my living room is full of tropical plants that need to be pruned and put on stands and watered and it’s all more than I can manage right now. Hopefully will be feeling better tomorrow and can get to it […]
Gardening desperately in need of doing Read More »
Harvesting dahlias. Lots and lots of dahlias. Also cutting milk toffee. Lots and lots of milk toffee. Dahlia and coffee. Sunny dahlias. Pink & purple dahlias, with bonus geometries. 🙂
Lots and lots of dahlias. Read More »
Annual salvia Amistad is a great color for a moody autumn garden. Autumn planter, with slightly soggy mums. (Lots of rain last night. We have a roof leak that we’ll try to deal with today. Sigh.) Peacock gladiolus, with little free library. Many of the dahlia got quite beaten down by the rain, but some
The garden, before first frost Read More »
My last little batch of ripe cherry tomatoes! I’ll be harvesting all the green ones soon, for green tomato chutney. #blog #serendibkitchen #serendibgarden
The last ripe cherry tomatoes Read More »
My grad school classmate, Nicole Walker, has a book, _Sustainability: A Love Story_, tiny lovely essays that are mostly centered on how we want to do good things for the planet, but it’s hard and we are lazy and so often we don’t live up to our ideals. My burning bush is one of the places
Trying cuttings for the first time! Grow, grow, little roots!
Grow, little roots! Read More »
Garden in mid-October. Still going. 🙂 Fading, but not quite done yet.
Fading, but not quite done yet. Read More »
My bulbs arrived from White Flower Farm yesterday, so it’s time to plant. Every year’s ritual, the planting of the snowdrops — they’ll multiply very slowly around here, not fast enough for my desire, so I add some more every fall. I’m just doing the classic galanthus nivalis, though there are some gorgeous doubles and
The planting of the snowdrops Read More »
Yesterday, Barbara A. Dolan hosted a meet-up of our local FB Garden Club. I was only able to make it for the last hour (due to my daughter’s soccer game), but it was fun chatting with other gardeners, and I came away with some nice clippings (which will hopefully root, fingers crossed) and seeds. 🙂
Meet-up of our local FB Garden Club Read More »
Blooming yesterday in the front garden — Kevin and I have both been sick, so the garden has been horribly neglected. It felt so good yesterday; we hired Neighbors United (“The Guys” is the new name for their landscaping service) to come out and do some mowing (our push mower wasn’t up to the task,
Autumn Garden in Bloom Read More »
