Serendib Garden

I was watching Gardener’s World this morning while grinding curry powder for the spring surprise packages, and Monty Don talks about starting dahlias early in pots, putting them on heated mats to encourage growth, and then taking cuttings for division, before planting out in the garden. Does anyone here have any experience with that? Any […]

Plant ID game? I have no idea what these are, coming up in my garden. Some perennials I planted last year when they were bigger, clearly, so I don’t know what the new-out-of-the-ground version looks like.

Scilla. (I keep wanting to type ‘and Charybdis’.)

Scilla.

I decided to take Anand’s suggestion and come out to the shed after lunch to work, so I wouldn’t keep getting irritated by mess in the house and wanting to snap at my family to clean it up faster. I admit, I’d sort of avoided getting started in shed work season this year, even though

Hellebore. ***** Snowdrops. ***** Crocus tommasinianus, and again with heuchera. ***** This photo makes me laugh. It’s like the snowdrop is the first one out, and he’s talking to the crocuses. “All right, you young whippersnappers. This is early spring, and early spring is no joke, you know? We may get some snow. We might

The snowdrops are well up in my garden now, and the hellebore buds as well. Funny moment as I was raking leaves away from them this morning — an older gentleman said as he was passing, “Be careful — they’re going to hire you to do that for the whole neighborhood!” Heh. I admit, a

When you’re a little slow about getting your paperwhites staked, sometimes they end up leaning drunkenly together, giddy and intoxicated. Paperwhites in love. Happy spring.