Garden log 3/14/24
Garden log 3/14/24. Hm — I’m not sure if this was the right choice or not. I ordered some tiny starter plants on Etsy for
I garden in Oak Park, IL (zone 6a); I started working primarily with perennial successions, but am now branching out, after ten years, into more annuals and vegetables.
Perennial is a combination of breast cancer memoir and garden romance, a sweet little chapbook of about 14,000 words of fiction and a dozen autobiographical poems.
“Can I help you?” The woman in the front section of Devan McLeod’s garden shop had been wandering aimlessly about the store for a full twenty minutes. Usually he tried not to pester the customers; after eleven years in America, he still hadn’t dropped all of his more reserved habits; his Scottish father had been the strong, silent type. But his Indian mother came from shopkeeper roots, and he could just hear her scolding him now. Take care of your customers, son, and they’ll take care of you. He really ought to Skype them; it’d been too long.”
Garden log 3/14/24. Hm — I’m not sure if this was the right choice or not. I ordered some tiny starter plants on Etsy for
Remember that plant ID apps sometimes get it wrong — my phone thinks that first pic is lily-of-the-valley, but it is very wrong — that’s
Chionodoxa are out; I like to plant these scattered in grass, like little fairy stars.
Species tulip, a variety of clusiana, I think. Should perennialize and spread in my zone, fingers crossed.