Serendib Garden

Tulip “Crispion Sweet”! Showy and a bit ridiculous. 

This is me, having survived 45 minutes of battle with an exceedingly thorny rose. It is pruned! And I was only a little bloodied. I retired to the lounge chair on the porch afterwards. It was a little chilly today, but lovely in the sunshine cuddled up under a blanket, and I was finally tired

Robin, but also, the very neglected John Cabot rose that was shouting, “Prune me, prune me!” When you have a ratio of 4/5 dead branches to 1/5 live ones, you know you’ve let it go too long.

Pretty much the only time I felt okay today was when I was gardening — thankfully, there’s plenty to do. I tried something new with the raspberries this year, hacking away a bunch of them, digging up random ones and giving them away, and tying the ones that remain to an obelisk. That’s not going

Someone tell me what this is, and whether I care that it’s in my lawn? My ‘lawn’ is pretty eclectic, since I don’t use any chemicals on it — whatever random green thing grows there is usually fine, but this one is just tall enough and purple enough, I’d like to know what it is

Oh, I did not do a great job with seed starting, I think. I mean, I did okay with the first batch of putting seeds in self-watering containers (key for how harried I am — one set was not in a self-watering container, and really suffered from lack of consistent watering), but: a) first I

One more shot of Thalias, just because I love them so. G’night, peeps. Sweet dreams.

I don’t know what the name of these daffodils are, because they came as part of White Flower Farm’s daffodil mix (“The Works”) but they’re my second favorite variety. I love the lush creamy double exuberance of them. They do get a little heavy when it rains or snows, and these were rescued from being

Thalia daffodils and a fritillary. I love the delicacy and grace of these together, against the art glass.

It’s a little early in the season for watering the garden — I usually try to put it off as long as possible, both to save the planet and because I’m lazy. But it’s been gorgeously warm the last few days, and I’ve learned my lesson after losing too many new plantings over the years