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
The Ostrich Bed is what I call the area that is immediately in front of our living room windows. The windows face North towards the street. When we moved to this house ten years ago, this part of the yard was simply a foundation planting of tormented Japanese Yews (Taxus cuspidata). The yews were suffering …
Category: Garden Tour, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Shade Gardening Tags: 'Aye-yi-yi', Aquilegia canadensis, Bleeding Heart, Bridalwreath Spirea, Clethra alnifolia, Daylily, Foundation Plantings, Golden Alexander, Hemerocalis, Japanese Yew, Lamprocampnos spectabilis, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Ostrich Fern, Spirea vanhoutei, Taxus cuspidata, Wild Columbine, Zizia Aurea
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