I plant things. I dig them up and move them around. I daydream about planting more things. I like to look at my growing things. I feel sorry for distressed and clearance plants.
My hardiness zone is between marks of 7b and 8a, with a hefty dollop of extra frost.
Gardens
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My whole front yard and one side yard are my flower garden, and the daylilies move about in it as I want to make changes. Sometimes they go into p...
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This area is along the front fence, with a weedy ditch on the other side. It used to be full of a tatty hedge. Shade is provided by a tree at the...
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My front yard is a garden. We took out a tree, dug out the “anaconda roots”, tilled in soil amendments (Dad brought over his tractor f...
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(Where these are planted, we also have an iris that’s something else, a very tall smaller flower that’s almost black — an Iris ch...
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This is the ditch-and-some in the curve of the driveway, hosting three mailboxes on the street side. The garden side has that red volcanic rock. ...
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Dahlias that go into the garage for the winter. Annuals to star on the steps. That sort of thing.
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On the north side of the house, this is a bed divided by a narrow volcanic rock access path. It’s not actually very shady in the mid- to lat...
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2011 Working on claiming the house side of this. Worked in compost, added temp daylilies and some starts or seeds of lychnis, love in a mist, colu...
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I may have purchased one of those collections of blue-flowering bulbs for this area. It has a blue iris, chionodoxa, blue brodiaea, and um. Right...
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