Don’t you think Fruit’n’Foliage would make a good name for a breakfast cereal? It could be made with kale flakes and blueberries. Or not blueberries – too common. Kale flakes and açai berries! You heard it here first. But enough of that. Today I want to look at interesting things in the garden that aren’t …
When it comes to our beds and borders, I am a helicopter gardener – constantly hovering, intervening, helping (or interfering, depending on your point of view) and worrying. On the other hand, about 99% of the time I ignore the lawn. Because let’s face it, lawns are boring.
OK, maybe Piet Oudolf didn’t design the landscaping around my local Burger King.
Autumn this year has not been very autumnal. From childhood I associate fall with a raw chill and leafy puddles. This year, however, has been unusually dry and warm, conditions associated with more modest seasonal color. There is still some color to be seen, though.
This September has been rather warm, with now and then more than a hint of summer. Leaves are still green on plants both woody and herbaceous. However, my attention is often seized by seedheads on the grasses. Of all the grasses of September, I think Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) is the most glorious. Judy took these pictures …
I am a flower-centric gardener, and so it is useful to be reminded that a garden is about more than blooms. Which is exactly the service performed by Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day, sponsored by Christina at My Hesperides Garden. At this point in the summer the warm-season grasses start to assert their presence, especially the …
So I have some exciting news! You may remember last October I wrote about how the city forestry crew had taken down a dying maple on the parkway west of the driveway. It turns out the city will NOT be replacing that tree (something about too close to the driveway). This creates a new space …
And now for the saga of the nomadic Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). Today I dug out a slice of turf along a corner of the Sidewalk Border in order to create a sunny spot for said switchgrass, which had already been moved once. Digging up grass is one of my favorite garden chores. I use an …
We saw a lot of wonderful gardens during the 2014 Garden Bloggers’ Fling in Portland this past July. If I had to pick one favorite, however, it would be Rhone Street Gardens. This is a garden where it seems every square inch is bursting with exuberant plant life. The resident gardener at Rhone Street Gardens …
Fall is the season of grasses. In my garden, my absolute favorite grass is ‘Northwind’ Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). Now is when ‘Northwind’ sends up it’s airy panicles of tiny flowers. I have two big clumps of this Switchgrass in the Driveway Border. This grass is native to the eastern and central parts of the USA …
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