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 …
With one heavy wet snow this week and two more larger snowfalls expected, it is time to think of ways to prevent snow damage to your trees and shrubs. The first way is smart plant choice, and coniferous evergreens with needles are one of the best for a snowy climate. Not only are many of them very …
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Cutting this dahlia nearly needed a stepladder. The flowers are held at over eight feet high on smooth dark stems. The flower color is almost impossible to describe, as the petals shade from a light creamy orange to a spicy darker center; sort of Cafe au Lait meets Orange Creamsicle. The center of …
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Northview Gardens Moon Beds - Poppy Parade at last. I dreamt about this day in January whilst nodding off by the fireside; a sparkly June morning and poppies in full bloom. We sprinkled tiny poppy seeds onto the melting snow and waited. The reward is a plethora of poppy blooms in shades of pink, …
One of the joys of the June garden is the flowering of the self-sown poppies. Translucent petals float on flexible stems. Bees hover from flower to flower. …
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