Whew… I am pooped. I am a happy Hanna, though. My wallet is only $20 lighter and look at all the great stuff I got. Apple mint Corkscrew willow pussy willow creeping phlox Dark Iris Petasites Chocolate mint Variegated mint… Read more ›
You know how you can really tell if it is time to plant your garden? You can tell because of the marathon of plant sales and swaps that happen all at once. Here in Cleveland, it is a busy, busy… Read more ›
FREE! FREE! FREE! Using this word in an advertisement is almost certainly guaranteed to get someone to sit up and take notice. Use this same word in conjunction with mulch and you will not only get gardeners to take notice,… Read more ›
My white peonies are in full bloom. I don’t know why only my white peonies are in bloom and not my pink peonies. The pink peonies are still tightly balled fetuses of a flower waiting to reveal themselves. Perhaps they… Read more ›
I found my Holy Grail. The rare and elusive Mangosteen tree. And like the original Holy Grail, it is destined to bring me heartache, disappointment and cost alot of money in my quest to obtain and keep it. *sigh* Why… Read more ›
I always try to do something creative for my post titles, but for this one, there is just no other way to say it. It’s damn hot. I think we may break a temperature record here in Cleveland for the… Read more ›
Oh, come on… Like I ever use 20 words or less to define anything. This whole topic came up in my head a few days ago in The Virtues of Bishop’s Weeds post. It didn’t actually come up in the… Read more ›
Not that I am advocate of theft, but it happens. It is one of the dirty little secrets of the gardening community. We gardeners are just obsessive compulsive sometimes and when we see a plant we have to have, we… Read more ›
Right now, if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of experienced gardeners cocking guns and grabbing implements of torture. They are saying “Hanna, them’s fightin’ words.” This is because Bishop’s Weed (also known as Goutweed) is one of… Read more ›
I brought the tender bulbs (technically rhizomes and corms in my case) up from the basement yesterday so I could plant them. I don’t have that many as I have not historically been big into plants that need to be… Read more ›
