Commentor Jharp suggested, quite reasonably, that if we’re going to talk about our gardens every Thursday evening, we could also include pictures. He even sent along the first photo, of his pepper patch, for this week’s post. So… if you have garden pics you want to share… email me a .jpeg (click on my name …
Garden Chats
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
This week I have an all-shades-of-pink garden: the first luxurious flush of Zepherine Drouhin roses along the front of the house, Karmina and Dilys geraniums below them, Jeanne La Joie mini-roses in the raised bed competing with the white-bordered fuchsia sweet william (dianthus) that was last year’s supposed-to-be-an-annual impulse purchase, Cosmo Sonata Mix rising above …
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
Here in northeastern Massachusetts, the good AGW-related news is that the tornadoes stayed west and south of us (not that poor Springfield needed any more bad luck, but Worcester still has nightmares about 1953). Diane Sawyer had a section on the evening news (delayed, in the Boston market, to allow the local newspods an extra …
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
So this week in New England it went from 50 degrees & rainy to 80 degrees & humid, just in time for the rest of my mail-order tomato plants to show up, looking much the worse for three days in transit (and with a couple of substitutions that are… puzzling, as well as disappointing). Spent …
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
It’s been raining on and off all week, nothing very significant but enough to flatten the leaning iris blossoms and bend the sodden lilac flower trusses almost to the ground. Territorial Seeds is supposed to deliver my first batch of tomato plants tomorrow, and Tasteful Garden says it’ll be shipping the rest at the beginning …
Open Thread
Last year, one of you posted in the comments the most amazing set of tomato stakes/cage/teepee and for the life of me, I can not find them. They were wood, and they sort of fit together to form rows of angular cages. Anyone remember what I am talking about?
Open Thread: Thursday Night Garden Chat
Our lilacs are gorgeously productive this year, with flower trusses in all shades of lilac and purple and white. The flowers almost hide the new green leaves on the towering front-yard bush which was one of the reasons we bought this house, coming up on 20 years ago now. And the masses of dark-purple irises …