Tag: Ostrich Fern
A Fine Year For Bleeding Hearts
The old-fashioned bleeding hearts (Lamprocapnos spectabilis) in my garden are looking very happy this year, the moist cool spring must agree with them. They are bushy and robust, with many long stems lined with dangling pink and white flowers. The unique shape of the bleeding heart flower certainly suggests the origin the plant’s name, though …
So Happy I Could Cry
This is a very stressful period for some garden bloggers (namely, me). On the one hand, we have had another glorious weekend and I am almost overwhelmed by all the wonderful blooms now returning to the garden, not to mention the new plants being installed. I want to write posts about all these developments for …
A Different Kind of Foundation Planting? Yew Bet!
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 …
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