Added a few little native irises (one white, one pale purple) at the base of this allium schubertii, paired with a silvery artemisia. Trialing the irises in this parkway spot — if they seem happy here, I’ll add more. Big irisis seem to love my parkway, where they bake in sun and rarely get watered. […]
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Garden log 5/6/24. Yesterday, I started work on the most labor-intensive part of gardening for me — the annual weeding + laying down of mulch. I enlisted Kevin and the kids into doing the long paths, telling them just to pull up anything big / easy between and around the stones, and then lay down
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I added some native wild geranium a year or two ago, and I’m loving it; will be planting some more little pots of it today. Maybe right under the cafe table wasn’t the best choice of location — it’s okay, I just won’t sit there for a bit. May dig that one up and move
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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 seen in person and don’t pay attention to the details in the listing — I’d originally bought camassia bulbs thinking they were like the spring ephemeral bulbs, snowdrops and chionodoxa
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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 purple ones (I know this looks almost white, but it’s light purple in person) seem to be a little behind. Another day or two and they’ll all be done…
Another day or two and they’ll all be done… Read More »
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, but every once in a while the breeze does catch a big snootful of scent. 🙂 (This is not the typical use of ‘snootful,’ but drowning in lilac scent does
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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 flow between them and the wall; I didn’t the first time, and the backs rotted through from watering after a few years. I liked them enough that I replaced them!
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Baptisia, peacock bench, Spanish bluebells, Aryabhata, aka Master of All He Surveys.
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Bridal veil spirea is very dramatic in the garden, but also works gorgeously as a dramatic cut flower. It’s useful to have a few tiny vases on hand, so when you trim off the bottom stems with blooms (so they don’t rot in the water), you can save some of them for a tiny arrangement
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