The Garden Path: Decorating with natural materials fits the season
December in the garden is usually a quiet time. the garden chores are few – keeping the birdfeeder filled, making sure the pond has an opening to get oxygen to the fish. Some well-placed decorations will make the garden beautiful even at this time of the year. Placing some greenery on a garden bench, arranged [...]
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Conservatory bulbs
When you want a conservatory full of colour all summer, plant exotic bulbs, and grow a spectacular display for a song. Exotic bulbs (and other plants with storage organs such as corms, tubers and rhizomes) are a particularly seductive group. by growing them from scratch at the start of the growing season, you can have [...]
Hyacinths – From Container to Garden Bed Gardening Help
Hyacinths are beautiful flowers and are available in a wide range of colors. one can choose from a variety of hyacinths and even mix and match them to get stunning results in the garden. Planting hyacinth bulbs and taking care of them till they bloom and then transferring them to the garden involve a lot [...]
Caring for Tender Bulbs
Some of the most popular house plants are grown from tender bulbs. by keeping to their natural cycle of rest and growth, you’ll get colourful blooms year after year. by choosing carefully, you can have tender bulbous house plants in flower all year round. On the patio, tender bulbs add late summer and autumn colour, [...]
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Schmidt’s Emails: Free Gladiolus Bulbs and Free Soil Testing
Gnomeprechauns Guarding their Pot O’ GoldWe are reliably informed that it is permissible to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day through the weekend, so we will. Our Gnomeprechauns will be out late Thursday night and we expect them to be a bit under the weather by Friday morning, so we’re giving away their treasure while they are [...]
Tulipmania and the Dutch Golden Age ~ Blog of an Art Admirer and History Lover
With strange perfumes he did the roses taint,And flow’rs themselves were taught to paint.The tulip, white, did for complexion seek,And learn’d to interline its cheek;Its onion root they then so high did hold,That one was for a meadow sold.(Andrew Marvell, The Mower against Gardens) Jean Joseph-Xavier BidauldThere was a moment in the 17th century when [...]
Sweet Basil and the Bee: New darling on the grain plate — Ancient farro getting attention from savvy chefs
CHICO — “If this be Spring, what worse can Winter bring?” might have been Shakespeare’s reaction to this week’s market. Saturday was a nasty day with impending rain, cold, stiff winds and an ominously un-full parking lot. I had to admire the optimism of brave vendors who picked and tediously cleaned mud-spattered produce that was [...]
As we March into spring in the garden
A: For many on the Central Coast, March marks the official beginning of the gardening year. Most of the county has experienced its last frost, bulbs are peeking up and Mother Nature makes it clear that spring is upon us! Even those gardeners who tend to “hibernate” during the winter are ready to leave their [...]