Wordless Wednesday, 1 June 2022
the montage garden
While doing some reading in the history of garden design—ornamental gardens that is, the squirrels, raccoons, and now armadillos make vegetable gardening far too frustrating for me—I read the following in Lorraine Harrison’s How to Read Gardens, “most gardens of any age are like a palimpsest: successive generations have changed adapted and influenced the soft …
Wordless Wednesday, 11 May 2022
six on Saturday, 7 May 2022
1. I begin this week's six where I began last week's with the Blount County Master Gardeners' plant sale. But instead of announcing the sale, I'm reporting on my purchases: marigolds, wave petunias, hydrangea paniculatas, impatiens, columbines, coleus, Asian lilies, basil, a massive hanging pot begonia, and one very tall Japanese maple that was just …
six on Saturday, 30 April 2022
A pretty quick six today. It is Blount County Master Gardener plant sale weekend. There was setup on Friday, labeling, pricing, and arranging plants at the Oneonta, Alabama, Agribusiness Center. Then the sale is today. I think that our own Master Gardeners buy just about as many plants as we sell. These plant sales are …
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six on Saturday, 9 April 2022
Spring, in shades of yellow-green and pollen covered, has arrived here in Blount County Alabama. The following six items offer a pretty good sense of what's going on in the garden. 1. I'll make the pollen point with a photo of one of the birdbaths. The rocks are in the bowl because a year or …
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