All the hummingbird feeders are ready and waiting……. The bottlebrush buckeye is in full bloom Columbine is happy, happy, happy! The coral honeysuckle is on a quest to take over the front porch! Surely they will be here soon.
Archive of posts tagged native plants
The many faces of weeding
I’m not exactly sure how much of a gardener’s time is spent weeding, but I think it’s a large percentage of the time spent in the garden. This year, in the veggie gardens, I used leaves as mulch and it is working wonders! Sure, there are places where the crabgrass is attempting to take over [...]
Something is pooping on the porch……
The farmhouse has big wide wrap-around porches which are great for sleeping dogs, porch swings, and the occasional break from gardening. To hide the empty space between the ground and the bottom of the porch, last year I planted native coral honeysuckle and am training it to climb up a wire fence that has been nailed [...]