Master Gardeners: Winter survival tips for green thumbs
WHAT BETTER way to work up an appetite for hot chocolate and cookies than a few brisk hours in the garden? Just because the tomatoes and marigolds have passed their prime and the daffodils aren’t quite ready to venture into the frosty morn, there’s still plenty to keep you busy and engaged gardening. As with [...]
A Season of Perfection for Daylilies
This summer has been near perfection from the standpoint of weather. Save for the horrid heat and humidity in June there have been for the most part cooler temperatures with plenty of sunshine and rain. not quite hot enough for tomatoes and peppers, but conditions for daylily performance are unmatched. When it comes to the [...]
Organic Gardening Tips
Gardening is a money saving initiative much more individuals are turning to. Organic gardening is really a skill in itself, but you shouldn’t begin anything without a solid strategy. With a great strategy gardening will save you the time and expense of shopping. If you are able to successfully garden, you are able to sell [...]
Oakville Farm Daylily Blog: Tuesday …
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… ~Susan Polis Shutz Sun, not today! currently having a light drizzle. I do believe that the worst of the forecast is over for us. will not work amongest the flowers today. Just added a new daylily cultivar to our “Specials” section. Zagora presents [...]
Potpourri: Recent Bash Helps Local Boys and Girls Clubs, Ministry
Proceeds from the event will be donated to benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Lakeland and Mulberry, and also Parker Street Ministries. Members of the club say they were delighted at the amount of local support they received for this event. Plant City’s Community Theater is proud to present the comedy “Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s [...]
Oakville Farm Daylily Blog: Daylilies, oh my …
Hello daylily enthusiasts. what do you still have blooming in your yard? Several of our reblooming daylilies have bloomed their first round, rested and are now sending up scapes with more blooms to come. Surprise, surprise! Hope you had a good week. here at Oakville Farm, we have been watering the daylilies. Several blog writings [...]
Daylily ‘Bela Lugosi’
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Little Wing Garden: Daylilies 2010~ Part Four
Daylily bloom season is past peak now in my zone 7b garden but not over by any means. Although some plants are through blooming there a still others that have yet to begin. Rain is getting precious again as summer really heats up fast. I have yet to hook up the sprinkler this year but [...]
Sharing love of daylilies
First of two parts SHIRLEY — on a recent blustery Saturday morning, the Gardeners Exchange held its first meeting of the season at the Hazen Memorial Library. after a brief business meeting to go over its calendar of activities, Denise Pavlovich of Covered Bridge Perennials in Pepperell treated the group to a presentation on daylilies. [...]
It’s never too early to start
ItIIt seems counter-intuitive, I know, to be thinking aboutgardening at this time of year. I mean, it’ll be at least a month before the ground thawssufficiently to drive a shovel into it — and longer still beforeit’s dry enough to turn up with anything except mud — so why worryabout gardening now? Well, because this [...]