I don’t think anything was killed.  The electricity blinked for a second last night while I was sleeping, causing the safety switch on my heater to trip. The temperature in the greenhouse was 30 degrees F this morning. Not what I wanted to wake up to.  All I could do was turn on the heater and [...]

I decided to try my hand at growing agapanthus from seed.  I didn’t read any advice about growing them, lest I be disappointed in my own efforts.  I sowed the seed about six weeks ago, and I’m just now starting to see germination. Of eighteen pots, I have four sprouting. I nearly gave up on [...]

When people ask me what my favorite flower is, I never hesitate to say “Sunflowers.” They are so bright and cheerful, and easy to grow. There’s nothing quite as striking, to me, as a vase full of yellow and orange sunflowers. I feel like I’m betraying all the other flowers out there when I choose [...]

Depending on what part of the country you live in, you can plant just about anything in a “rock garden.”  I’ve started one with a mixture of sedums, groundcovers, bulbs, shrubs, herbs and perennials.  The bed is right near the road on a slope above a ditch. It sits between two sawtooth oak trees, and [...]

Spring planting of perennials will soon commence. In fact, there is probably a minimal selection available at your local garden center now, depending on where you live. I worked in the front yard after work yesterday until the sun set, and I found my echinacea and veronica sprouting up from their roots. The echinacea has [...]