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Weed Control & Dupont Lanscape Fabric

Some times it is cool to be a garden blogger, because you get swag. Dupont sent me free samples of their “Weedfree Premium Lanscape Fabric” to review, not knowing I already used and loved the product, and have for years. Free stuff for me.

Free stuff for you too, they also gave me a $100 lowes [...]

FAIL! My Fargesia Nitida Bamboo is Flowering.

Woe is me. My bamboo is flowering.
Bamboo Flower Close-up
Now, up where I live, there is only one bamboo that can really grow. Fargesia Nitida, a clumping Chinese mountain bamboo that is hardy to zone 5.
The thing about bamboo, it doesn’t flower, it doesn’t flower for decades, a century, then it flowers and dies. this [...]

Not Gardening

It has been a long time since I’ve posted anything, I didn’t want people to think this blog is abandoned or anything, but, by nature, gardening blogs are largely seasonal. I’m not so lucky to live in Florida where I can garden year round, or near enough as makes no difference.
I haven’t been able to [...]

A Pruning Tool for Every Job

It has been awhile since I’ve blogged, but the end of the gardening season (due to earlier than normal harsh cold weather) and a new baby will do that to you.
When I was getting my garden ready for fall I had to do some pruning and cutting back of various plants and it occurred to [...]

Trees as Time Capsule

I romanticize about gardening and landscaping sometimes, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. I often fantasize about what impact I can leave on this world, what I can build that will exist after I am gone.

Trees live for hundreds or thousands of years, and since they reseed, your actions in planting a [...]

How to Grow Hardy Hibiscus or Rose Mallow

This is a plant with many names, hardy hibiscus, rose mallow, swamp mallow, etc. It is a wonderful plant and should be in almost every garden.
A North American native it can be found growing wild in the south, but it has been hybridized and many beautiful cultivars are available for the entire country. It is [...]

Front Yard Farming

I’ve seen articles recently about global food shortages and feeding our populations and whatnot, bunch of scare tactics mostly, but when you sit down and think about it, there is a lot of land that could be used to grow food, but isn’t.
Highway medians, roadsides, parks, but mostly, front yards.
Some backwards and oppressive cities have [...]

My Favorite Tree Died, A Lesson in Plant Biology

My favorite tree has died. I have blogged about it a lot, and the posts will be mentioned below in the related posts section.
It was a Forest Pansy Redbud. I’ve had bad luck with the spot that I planted it. It is very full sun, from dawn to dusk, I had two weeping cherries [...]

Use Compost, Save Money

Behold! My new Pinus Contorta “Taylor’s Sunburst”!

I know it doesn’t look anything special now, but this is one rare and amazing plant. In the spring the new growth lights up to a bright yellow (in contrast with the dark green older growth) in an amazing display. In Spring it will look like this:

So, did I [...]

Selling my Favorite Daylily

“Purple Maze” is my favorite daylily bloom, I saw it, I had to buy it, I paid a lot of money for it. I bought it when it first came available directly from the hybridizer, I think I paid $200. Kind of embarassing really, but I really like it. Apparently others do too, I’ve seen [...]

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