It is the 15th of the month, and that means it’s Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day, when we bloggers report on what is blooming in our gardens. I’ve done a lot of garden clean-up this past week, but I left the cool season annuals that were still blooming intact. Cool season annuals do best in the cooler spring or fall weather. [...]
There are lots of things blooming in the garden today. Here is a small sampling, starting with plants from my sunny patio border, above. With the bright sunshine, it’s hard to see the plants in this distant shot, so let’s take a closer look . . . The wild looking, hot-pink poufs are from a [...]
Since I broke my clavicle, I’m limited as to what I can physically do. I’m taking a lot more time to complete gardening tasks. This, along with a lot of travelling, Â seems to have affected my brain as well. I’ve been very self-indulgent in always choosing gardening over other important tasks: house-cleaning, blogging, and stuff [...]
Spring is fickle. One day it is approaching 80 degrees, and a few days later – today - it barely gets up to 50. That’s o.k. We also had a rain deluge and four separate tornado warnings during the night which, thankfully, did not amount to much except soggy ground and cold. It’s spring! I spent several chilly hours [...]
Like gardeners everywhere, I can’t wait to get gardening in spring! So it finally happened – I sowed some seeds, both indoors and out, the other day. Outdoors, I planted snow peas and sugar snap peas, spinach, leeks and onions right on schedule. Pushing the season a bit, I also started some lettuce, carrots, radishes, [...]
It was frigid and snowy outside, but in my den it seemed like summer – while going through my garden and plant photos. I spent the entire day working on a presentation for the Tri-State Green Industry Conference, to be held at the Sharonville Convention Center on February 3rd. I had planned to spend the morning [...]
It is another Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, 15th of each month, when garden bloggers from around the world report on what’s blooming in the garden. In my Cincinnati garden, the mums and asters have some blooms but don’t look good enough to photograph. There are still a few other late bloomers that have endured the [...]
Despite the dry times, there are still some good flower vignettes in the garden. In the image above, chartreuse-leaved spiderwort, Tradescantia ‘Sweet Kate’ really shines in front of the annuals Zinnia ‘Profusion Apricot’ and Salvia ‘Lady in Red’.  The taller plant is the perennial Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’. The beebalm on the right, Monarda ‘Grand Mum’, [...]
I had the pleasure of visiting a local community garden this morning – the East End Veterans Memorial Garden. There I met with my friend Cindy Schrader and some folks from Cincinnati Magazine to do a photo-shoot for an upcoming article I’ll be writing about growing a cutting garden. Cindy’s is one of several gardens [...]
Another month, another Gardener’s Bloom Day! On the 15th of each month, gardeners from around the blogosphere tell us what’s blooming in their gardens. Here are a few things that are blooming in my Cincinnati-area garden. I’ve decided to feature annuals this month. These plants live for only one growing season, but they bloom their [...]