Jenny Rose Carey
Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden
With tips for digging up the tubers and storing them for winter Gardening Quote: ‘If the iris is considered the flower of the rainbow, surely the dahlia might be called the flower of the sunset.’ Louise Bush-Brown, Flowers for Every Garden, Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. Dahlias …
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The first thing to do is to collect your supplies for winter seed sowing – old plastic milk jugs, a knife to cut it, labels and pencil, seeds and watering can with fine rose end, and duct tape. As the days lengthen in the Northern hemisphere it is time to start thinking of growing plants from …
Gardening Quote "Let's accept random seeding, let's tolerate small flowers like grace-notes decorating the paving. Not always, but sometimes." Dear Gardening Friends, One of the reasons that I am always drawn to old gardens is that they have a gentle, relaxed, lived-in look. Plants have …
As the days lengthen and the temperatures increase the pace of spring growth increases. Buds open. Shoots emerge and elongate. The pace of change is dizzying. Capture these fleeting moments in photographs to enjoy year round. Photos above: Leucojum vernum - Spring snowflake - dangling white and …
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The star-like white flowers of Magnolia stellata, the star Magnolia (shown above), are some of the first Magnolias to bloom in the spring. The strappy tepals (sepals and petals) explode from tightly packed, fuzzy buds when a few warm days spur new spring growth. Magnolia x loebneri' Leonard …
The Hamamelis season is in full swing here at Northview. Many of the witch hazel flowers are out earlier this year as the weather has been mild this winter, although combined with one of the heaviest snowfalls recorded in Philadelphia. I have been thinking about witch hazels for the last few weeks. …
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This dahlia plant is at least four foot tall by September. I grow the dahlias in a fenced in cutting garden to prevent the 'varmints' from eating them. In spring the tubers are planted in a five inch deep hole in raised beds filled with soil and compost. A sturdy stake is put in at the time of …
More autumnal colors …
Dahlias become more beautiful as the weather changes in the fall. Great for cutting. …
Look for the magic, the growth, and the adventures that happen in a garden. View the intricacies of a flower from an unusual angle or look more closely than usual. Here is the underside of an ordinary zinnia flower. By a concerted scrutiny of something so familiar you see with fresh rather than …
