How to plant bulbs to get the best results in spring 👇
Frangipani; marzipan, vanilla, honey and jasmine
Ideally you need a warm sunny greenhouse for Plumeria to thrive for if you keep these happy they’ll reward you with months of the most delicious blooms each so heavily perfumed you almost want to eat them (please don’t, they’re likely poisonous). Their common name Frangipani was taken from an Italian Renaissance nobleman who blended […]
Time to harvest and sow
Aubergines and tomatoes that have finished cropping, as some of mine have, can be composted, creating more space in the greenhouse border and between pots on the bench, admitting more sunlight and improving air circulation around the plants that remain. Early in the month, remove individual leaves around aubergines, peppers and cucumbers and continue feeding […]
Sweet Peas
One of the glorious things about gardening is that you’re always thinking ahead, so I’m dreaming about the glories of next year just as the garden begins to fade. I’m planning to grow sweet peas again, because they are the ultimate cut and come again flower. Just a few stems on the kitchen table fragrance […]
Wild things
Let locally adapted self-seeders run wild, and watch your garden come alive. It’s been a wild summer in my garden – in every sense. Diminished gardening time has meant that many plants and projects have run away from me, unleashed and untamed, egged on by peaks of heat and unseasonal lashings of rain. Stuff has […]
These eight plants self-seed 👉 https://t.co/4jrcQ1Q2OA #Plants #Gardening https://t.co/HlgAlyZ9pJ
Mint Cuttings
The sun is still high and the greenhouse lush and jungly, but it is time to start looking ahead to winter, and to what I will be eating from the garden then. The greenhouse must be pressed into service for nurturing young plants again, if I can only find some space… Happily with the weather […]
10 unusual herbs to grow in your garden 🌿⬇️
The undaunted prairie
The other day I strolled along a path between plants as tall as my shoulders, like a sea of green grasses with colorful swells of yellow coneflowers and black-eyed Susans, white ironweed and Indian plaintain, purple milkweed, and orange butterfly weed. Butterflies twinkled–monarchs, painted ladies, swallowtails—and bumblebees plodded from flower to flower. On the marsh […]
Why is deadheading important?
Jean Vernon explains the whys and wherefores of deadheading your garden plants It’s a term bandied about a lot in summer – deadheading. But what does it actually mean and why do we need to do it? Deadheading is all about keeping your summer plants flowering, more specifically your annual plants but not always. It’s […]
Surprisingly Tasty Ornamentals Hide in Plain Sight
I’m always pleased when I discover beautiful ornamental plants in my garden that are also delicious to eat. So, last month, at a Hardy Plant Study Weekend in Portland, OR, I was happy to attend a presentation by Stacey Hirvela called “Incidentally Edible.” Stacey is a marketing specialist for Proven Winners Colorchoice Shrubs, and the […]
10 fruits that love shady spots in the garden 🍒🍐➡️ https://t.co/8mHiaXqmw2 #Fruit #GrowYourOwn #Gardening https://t.co/F8b5xCOe7l