An e-mail last week from my dad on Vancouver Island had a photo attached of his gigantic Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) – its first flower had opened, a lovely pure white with a burgundy red eye. Three days ago my own Rose of Sharon bloomed for the first time ever, and it’s remarkably similar […]
Month: August 2017
mid summer report – happy happy joy joy
Nothing has died. That kind of says it all. This time last year the fields were brown, the Larix were dead, the Rudbeckia was just not flowering. Copious amounts of rain this spring and an average amount so far this summer has brought in the garden great joy to all things growing and, I suspect, […]
County Gardening 