“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” —-
Janet Kilburn Phillips
If anyone visiting today has a garden, I hope yours is going well this season! Mine is still a work in progress, but here is my garden tour for 2024 so far. I have been working hard to reduce garden clutter, fertilize my plants regularly, remove damage, and reduce crowding in my plots. So far, I’m satisfied with the…
I have pink wood sorrel all over my property. It is such a beautiful oxalis. It clusters in soft mounds, up to a foot tall. Throughout the entire spring and summer, it has small, soft pink blossoms.
Wood sorrel is hardy in zones 7-9, so it is normally a house plant in most of the United States. In climates where it can grow outside, it is a great border perennial plant. It propagates itself via…
Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
3-min video: Our Newest Wombat Joey (Australian Reptile Park/YouTube). When you need to slow down.
essay: Sitting for Ideas (Hugh Hollowell/Hugh’s Blog). “Ideas come from space.”
article: What’s the Difference Between Thanksgiving Cactus, Christmas…
Last month I did a garden tour video on Sept. 10, which is our average first frost date. At the time, forecasts still had us looking at frost free nights well into October.
We got light frost over the next two nights after I recorded the video.
So when we got a harder frost exactly a month later, I figured it would be good to do another garden tour video. I managed to get it put together last…