Garden Journal

Garden log 4/4/24. With a couple of weeks of travel, I haven’t done much active gardening (thanks to Kevin for keeping my plants watered and alive while I was on the road). But I’m back to it now:

Hellebores

Hellebores.

Had sold out all of the framed flower art, so made a few more yesterday and dropped them off at Berwyn Sprout. And Eliana came by and made some more passionfruit marshmallows and chili-pomegranate chocolate roses for the spring treat boxes. Planning to ship those in late March / early April.

Fritillaria raddeana.

Japanese lilac tree.

Garden log 3/14/24. Hm — I’m not sure if this was the right choice or not. I ordered some tiny starter plants on Etsy for the first time, and this creeping phlox was so happy under my grow lights, it burst into full bloom a few days ago. We’re mostly having warm temps, although there’s

Remember that plant ID apps sometimes get it wrong — my phone thinks that first pic is lily-of-the-valley, but it is very wrong — that’s puschkinia (aka striped squill), a spring ephemeral. Lily-of-the-valley typically blooms around Mother’s Day for us; I expect it’ll be earlier this year, but not for another month still. Easy to

Reticulated irises.

Chionodoxa are out; I like to plant these scattered in grass, like little fairy stars.