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Red Hot Poker – Something not to grow, and bunnies.
When I first got into gardening I was attacted to large blooming perennials, and planted mostly those. I have come a long way since then, namely I appreciate things like edibles more, interesting foliage, and length of bloom time as much as bloom shape, size, or color. But sometimes that interest in large blooming perennials […]
Knockout Rose Tree
For many many years roses were hybridized for fragrance, or hybridized for color, or for size. Things like hardiness and disease resistance were not as much of a concern. It is only recently that gardeners in general started worrying more about these more functional attributes. The “Knock Out” brand of rose is one such newer […]
Dealing with Daylily Aphids
I grow a lot of daylilies, I have grown a lot of daylilies for years. This year I have had an infestation of daylily aphids. This has never happened before, I’m not sure why I was spared previous years, or hit this year. I think maybe the high rain earlier in the summer allowed the […]
Detroit Area Homeowner faces Jail for Front Yard Vegetables
Being in Michigan, (though thankfully not Detroit) I am somewhat familiar with Detroit. The city is basically a hole, miles of abandoned buildings. It has suffered under decades of big government mismanagement. It is the only city in the US to surpass 1 million people, but then fall below that, and in fact it’s population […]
Weeping Larch, Larix decidua ‘Pendula’, Like a big Bonsai
Somewhat as a followup to my previous post Niwaki: Bonsai in the Garden, about training unpotted garden trees in a bonsai fashion, today I bought a weeping larch. Long time readers of this blog will I know that for years and years I have wanted a Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar, Paul James had one on […]
Niwaki: Bonsai in the Garden
Sushi is about the rice, not the fish. This is why a California roll, which contains no fish, is still sushi, but sashimi, which is just a slice of raw fish, is not. So while most people immediately associate the word “sushi” with raw fish, it is actually named for the rice which accompanies it. […]
Rogue Climber
I awoke to a disappointing sight the other day, some fiend had meandered through my front yard, pooping, and eating leaves off plants. This would be bad enough, but what is worse, it tried to climb up my honeycrisp apple tree, and then I assume out onto the two lowest scaffold branches, and it broke […]
Pinus Cortorta Taylor’s Sunburst Update
I first blogged about this tree last summer when I planted it, well after it’s spectacular Spring color had faded. So, it was definitely time to do an update, with the pretty colors, which have lasted, so far, around 8 weeks. The color is spectacular, just as I had hoped. This is basically a conifer […]
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 […]
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 […]