What a busy, crazy week! I’m so ready for school to be out! My garden NEEDS me. Spring has taken it’s toll. All the rain has made for lots of bugs and mildew, black spot and WEEDS! As much as I love lemon balm, it is going to become a weed if I don’t get […]
I found him at Pier 1 on clearance! John thinks he’s creepy, but I think he’s fun. I also think John needs to stop letting little things creep him out so much. I have debated returning him, but I think I really want to keep him! — Weather When Posted –Temperature: 87°F;Humidity: 26%;Heat Index: 87°F;Wind […]
Crape Myrtles (Lagerstroemia indica) are slow growing flowering trees or shrubs native to China. They come in all colors… pink, red, white, purple. OK, so there is not yellow, orange or blue there, but that is still an impressive array of colors, don’t you think? And they bloom all summer and on into the fall […]
Hollyhocks (Alcea) are perennials that have multiple flower buds on tall central stems (as much as 6 feet) . They are gorgeous at the back of a border along a fence. That is also a good place for them because aphids love to chew up the leaves. You can stop that somewhat by spraying the […]
Robert Louis Stevenson (England, nineteenth century) The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener’s garters, Shepherd’s purse, Bachelor’s buttons, Lady’s smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames– These must all be fairy names! — Weather When Posted –Temperature: 78°F;Humidity: […]
Samantha got this book for her birthday several years ago and it is still one of our favorites. The pictures are all of hollyhock dolls. The story was wonderful. It was about a hollyhock doll that was blown away out of her garden and had the help of many friends to get back. At the […]
Thyme is incredible stuff! So is time, but thyme it one of my favorite seasonings for eggs and it is especially good fresh. I have grown creaping thyme, lemon thyme, wooly thyme and regular common thyme. My favorite by far is the lemon thyme. That is also the one that has done the best in […]
St. John’s Wort (Hypericum) is famous for it’s pharmaceutical properties and it’s uses as an herbal treatment for depression. There are over 300 species of Hypericum and I have no clue which one this is. I think it’s a gorgeous plant, though. It makes a mounding evergreen shrub about 3 feet tall and it will […]
The truth is that fire ant do provide a benefit. They eat ticks, chiggers, termites, boll weevils, flee hopper, cotton bollworms, pink bollworms, tobacco budworms, pecan weevils, hickory shuckworms, flies, fleas, tobacco budworms, corn earworms and cockroaches. Of course, they will also eat baby animals, seedlings and saplings – especially in the veggie garden. In […]
So I’m going to let you do the thinking. Here is a fun garden riddle for you. Some fill me, Some beat me, Some kill me, Some eat me; I creep and I fly, And my color is green; And though I’m a season There’s quite a good reason Why my end or beginning There’s […]
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