Seeds
Money Plant
Lunaria annua is a biennial plant that is native to southwest Asia and to the Balkans, however it has naturalized through Europe, North America and Asia. It is commonly called Honesty, Silver Dollars and Money Plant. It doesn’t bloom till the second season and then goes to seed and dies. But the seed is prolific in [...]
New Additions in 2010
There were a lot of new things added to my garden this season. This list includes bulbs, seeds, perennials, trees, shrubs and native plants. Here is my list and an update on their progress thus far: Rosa ‘Morning Magic’ – this was a must have for the arbor garden arch. The first one did so [...]
Fall Checklist Update
Well I’ve been working hard this past weekend completing some of the tasks I wanted to do before the end of the month. Here’s what we (my son helped quite a bit) got done so far: Transplanted a Knockout Rose from my grandmother’s garden bed to my Rose Garden out front (after trimming it back [...]
Seed Order
Just got my seed order in from Johnny’s Selected Seeds the other day. I normally wait to fall to order for spring, but half of this order will be winter sown. Something new I wanted to try. This is what I ordered: False Queen Anne’s Lace ‘Black Knight’ Larkspur ‘Sublime Bright Carmine’ Nigella or Love in a [...]
This and That
Here’s just some random stuff that is going on in the garden at the moment. I planted Nasturiums and Sweet Alyssum seeds in this pot earlier this month. The Chase Tree or Vitex agnus-castus I got at the Yorktown Plant Sale last month is doing great. The initial seedling broke off at soil level during a storm earlier this month, but it grew [...]
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