Yesterday I was delighted to find my garden’s first crocus blooms of the season! Hurrah! There are quite a few crocus in my garden, but their bloom time varies over a couple of weeks depending on both variety and location – some spots warm up much sooner than others. The first blooming crocuses of …
For some time now, I’ve had a growing sense that everyone around the world is rejoicing in their many colorful spring blooms. Everyone, that is, except myself and other winter-weary gardeners in Chicago and further North. It’s a feeling akin to knowing that there is a really big party out there to which you were …
Extreme weather dominates my thoughts about gardening for this past year. It started with extreme winter mildness. This may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it was unnerving for those of us accustomed to harsh Chicago winters. January was about 8 degrees warmer than normal on average. Snow melted, the snowdrops (Galanthus) came up …
Category: Gardening Techniques, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers, Shrubs and Small Trees, Weather Tags: Agastache foeniculum, Amelanchier, Anise Hyssop, Anise Scented Goldenrod, Aromatic Aster, Celandine Poppy, Chasmanthium latifolium, Culver's Root, Echinacea purpurea, Eupatorium 'Gateway', Galanthus, Gardening and Climate Change, Gardening and weather, Golden Alexander, Grape Hyacinth, Joe Pye Weed, Muscari, Northern Sea Oats, Oriental Lily 'Casa Blanca', Purple Coneflower, Rudbeckia triloba, Salvia 'May Night', Serviceberry 'Autumn Brilliance', Short's Aster, Snowdrops, Solidago odora, species tulips, Stylophorum diphyllum, Symphyotrichum oblongifolius, Tulipa praestans 'Fusilier, Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination', Zizia Aurea
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