Serendib Garden

I was trying to take a photo of the dark red early rose leaves (they’ll turn more green as the season goes on), but this little bug took over the photo. Oh well. Didn’t quite manage to get it in focus, though; there are limits to what I can do with my current phone camera, […]

Anyone know what this is? I think it just showed up on its own, and I’m not loving it, but would like to ID it before I just yank it.

I keep trying to squeeze fruit trees in where I’m not sure I really have room for them, but maybe if I keep pruning them assiduously, it’ll be okay. They’re hard to resist, between the gorgeous spring-blooming tiny flowers, and the promise of later tasty fruit. This is my new cherry, planted last fall. So

I think I’m going to dig up the fritillaria persica when it’s done blooming, and move it over into the parkway with the Thalia daffodils there. The contrast is super-cool, and persica is supposed to prefer hot, dry conditions. I think I made a mistake planting it in part-shade under a tree; I don’t actually

Fritillaria persica — Ellie accidentally snapped this one, so oh well, guess it had to come inside and be pretty in the kitchen. So dramatic. I can’t even with all the drama.

The little wild violets have started showing up. Go, go, little violets. Go colonize my lawn…

Someone asked in the garden club FB group for a list of bulbs to plant in fall — I’m not a garden designer, but here’s what I plant, in case it’s helpful, coming up in roughly this order: Early spring: – hellebores (not bulbs, but first perennials) (white, pinks, purples, greens) – snowdrops (white) –

Is it wacky of me to try planting a blueberry in my porch box (the tall plant in the photo)? I’ve amended the soil in that spot, so it should be sufficiently tasty, and there are other blueberries nearby for pollination. I just don’t have that much sunlight once the trees leaf out, and mama

Pulmonaria, aka lungwort. So named because it was once used medicinally for lung ailments, but thankfully, we have better options available today. Don’t go eating it. Just enjoy the pretty spotted leaves and blue-purple flowers. I suppose if pulmonologists had a flower emblem, this would be it. Now I want to go sketch it and

This is another love from childhood — the woods near my parents’ house were carpeted in periwinkle.