Nothing has died. That kind of says it all. This time last year the fields were brown, the Larix were dead, the Rudbeckia was just not flowering. Copious amounts of rain this spring and an average amount so far this summer has brought in the garden great joy to all things growing and, I suspect, […]
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Directions from Nature
When early pioneers were rolling their way across the tall grass prairies of North America, sometimes, in mid summer, they would come across a towering plant with huge basal leaves that often were oriented on a north-south axis. They called it a Compass Plant. In later years scientists speculated the leaves point that way to […]
Daylily Dreamin’
Daylilies (Hemerocalis spp) started to bloom in early June in my back garden. Well, one lovely tall spidery lemon yellow variety of daylily anyway. The common orange ‘ditch daylily’ started to open July 1, as they do every year. Stella d’Oro about three weeks ago and the rest, large brash colourful varieties, just this past […]
County Gardening 