This is the second article in the series. Click here to read the first blog piece. Well, I completed digging the third 7′ diameter circle …
Finishing up the circle beds & planting cool season flower seeds
full sun
Finishing projects… hollies, cypress trees, & juniper screen.
Also, a sneak peek at the cedar and copper trellis Joe and I created (but still have to complete)! I transplanted three of the soft …
Planting mail order bare root bald cypress trees
While driving a different route to school, I noticed beautiful bronzy cypress trees and figured out they were bald cypress (probably through Google Lens). First, …
What are band roses?
Unboxing and potting up band roses from A Reverence for Roses In my quest for more roses for the rose garden, I ordered bands from …
Extending another bed and planting soft touch hollies
There’s one part of my yard, behind the loropetalum hedge and under the beautiful Bismarck palm that is in a tight space that is tough …
Training my Hurricane Katrina rose to climb a post
I just purchased a new Peggy Martin (a.k.a. Hurricane Katrina) climbing rose. I have plenty of room for bush roses, but not a lot of …
Planting daylilies in a mixed border
Neither snow, nor rain… nor hurricane Ian. The postal service delivered my mail order daylilies from Ladybug Daylily farm in central Florida faster than I …
Collecting tree seeds for plant propagation
While pruning my pygmy date palm, I noticed it had seeded. Which, I thought was totally weird because, earlier this summer, I saw that the …
Sowing flower seeds
Where I live, north of Tampa, Florida, is agricultural zone 9b. This means, the lowest temperatures are 25°F to 20°F. The past couple of years, …
See what grew in my cedar raised bed through this brutally hot summer
Not many of your typical garden edibles survive the brutal heat of the summer or the incessant torrents of rain. That’s why, today, Labor Day, …