Eager and organized gardeners have been collecting seeds for months now, saving pods and capsules from bulbs, perennials, annuals and bulbs as they ripened, or letting them get mushy (tomatoes) or go to seed without deadheading (lupins, alliums) to collect seeds. Other gardeners (ie me) forget, can’t be bothered, procrastinate until it’s too late, or, […]
Category: Propagation
What I Learned Today – Daylily ‘proliferation’
I learned a new way to propagate daylilies!
Six on Saturday – 19MAR2022 – Three Thrilling Things
Honeybees! Such a welcome sight!
A Week of Flowers, Day Seven
Foxgloves for Day Seven of A Week of Flowers
Six on Saturday – 02/04/2021 – the sprouting continues…
I really love crocuses – or Croci , if you prefer. Big ones, small ones, white ones, orange ones, purple ones…white and purple ones…Bees love them too, and they’re one of the earliest bloomers in my garden (starting just as the snowdrops end, and before daffodils etc start) so I think they’re a wonderful addition […]
In a Vase, on Monday – just Zinnias
Zinnias fill a vase of cut flowers this week.
3 Small Summer Alliums
Three diminutive flowering onions – Alliums – for the summer garden.
Six on Saturday – 21/03/2020 – A Sad Start to Spring
Let’s share things from the ‘Positive Real World’ today – first weekend of Spring.
Six on Saturday – 05/10/2019 – mainly purple
I’m writing this on Friday night (October 4) – we have a frost warning in place with an expected low of plus three degrees Celsius – feeling like minus one. If frost arrive it will be the earliest in many years – it’s usually a week away. I’ve already harvested tomatoes and herbs; the chard […]