Serendib Garden

Here’s a garden treasure — this tiny beauty is the double form of bloodroot, an IL native. It was gifted to me last year by someone in our local garden club group, and I’m so happy to see that it’s taken well under my redbud. I may try to propagate it by vegetative cutting, so […]

Felt so lucky to get to work on the porch. I even managed to sweep it, so it’s finally a relatively clean porch…

Many of the flowerheads are half-bloomed right now. I don’t know if that means that side is getting more sun, or if it’s something else in the plant that determines that. It smells great, though.

Here, have some more tulips. Just ’cause.

So, here’s the thing with planters. When I first started gardening, I was in Oakland, where it’s 70F most of the year, 50F in winter, you can plant annuals in spring and the plants will basically stay good for most of the year. This is not the case in the Midwest. I spent my first

A glory of spring bulbs, plus a writing shed and forsythia.

I wish I could take credit for this cobalt blue pot + purple hyacinth + bright blue squill color combo, but it was an accident. A happy one!