Look for New items in seeds, plants, tools and yard art
Our mailboxes are full of catalogs. Grab a cup of hot tea and start browsing through them to see plants and seeds available for 2012. Have a marker available to highlight the veggies and flowers to consider for this year’s garden. I love this time of year, gray days are happy days to plan our gardens for a sunnier time. Continue reading
Each spring, summer and fall many wildflowers come up freely, bloom and go to seed. The flowers decorate our roadsides with casual beauty sent to us to enjoy. One of my favorites, a four-inch white flower blooming about the time of roadside daylilies, is Queen Anne’s lace. The flower is possibly named from a cap worn by Queen Anne with the design copied from wild flowers. Continue reading
easy to grow, perennial
As the year marches along and we arrive at June, July, and August we find black-eyed Susan blooming in our gardens and along roadsides. This favorite wildflower grows in virtually every state and into Canada. It is a true American wildflower of the Astor family and enjoys great popularity wherever it travels. Famous when the Colonists arrived here, it remains a favorite.
As a child living in Kentucky, my brothers and I walked the railroad tracks, balancing on the rails as we walked. Along the sides of the tracks wild hollyhocks, growing about 5 feet tall, bloomed each summer. I imagined passengers looking out the coach windows enjoying Continue reading
Colorful, dependable, perennial
Throughout the South, everywhere we turn in early summer, the familiar tall bronzy yellow daylilies of all time smile at us. Growing on banks, curbsides, in ditches and beside mailboxes when they are in full bloom we appreciate their added beauty.