A labyrinth design for an herb garden plan or planting a flower garden or as garden path pattern or garden feature. Just right for St. Patrick's Day, too.
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Pot Marigolds (Calendula). These are from saved seed that I've had going on for several seasons. The yellow is first yellow calendula I've ever grown. Isn't saved seed cool?
For whatever reason, this African Blue Basil has thrived this winter, while others in my yard were zapped by our frosts. At any point during the day, there are at least a couple honey bees busy at work on this bush.
Seeds from my Summer Glory Lettuce mix. Tough to separate the chaff from the seed, but I got several tablespoonfuls of seed from the three or four plants I let go to seed.
The crocus are reluctant to bloom in the cold or cloudy days so I took some indoor pictures instead. We have some African violets in bloom. I used my homemade lens setup and took some macro photos. I wasn't even aware of the aphid on the light blue flower. Pretty cool what a macro photo can reveal! . . .
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Just when my frustration on the lack of any collective gardening activity in my city was brewing to the brim, there came this welcome news: a flower show was being organized by the Saharanpur Botanical Garden or the so called Company Bagh here.
The Company Bagh takes its origin from the days of British Raj, during which this huge garden was developed with saplings and plants brought in from far off lands like Kashmir and Bengal; in fact Company in the nomenclature comes from British East India Company. . ..
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on Mar 11, 2008, 6:24AM
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My Second Day at the Allotment/Wilderness saw the sun shining momentarily between storm clouds. I spent three and a half hours there today trying to do some more clearance, and clearing the roots and weeds I left in the first bed.
The birds were singing and the wind blowing. Apart from the childrens school at breaktime it was perfectly quiet.Good reflective silence to imagine what this wild plot could look like.. . . .
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This is the rough plan I’ve made for the back yard vegetable garden (main bed). The area on the left side of the page, from the zucchini down to the radishes, will be positioned under my row greenhouse. Most of my direct-seeded tender plants are going under there because last year the row greenhouse really helped to keep the rabbit damage to a minimum. I’m excited to have flowers interspersed with the vegetables this year. . . .
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on Mar 11, 2008, 3:48PM
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1. You must have one bunch of anacharis (underwater grass) per square foot of water surface area. This serves as a natural filter and as food for the fish. It grows faster than the fish can eat it. . . .
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Some people have mentioned in their garden blogs that they don't like the commercial aspect of the flower and garden shows in their area and they choose not to go. There are a lot of vendors selling home and landscaping services and wares at the Indy show too, but it doesn't bother me. My husband has been in an industry for the last eighteen years that involves trade shows, so I understand how they operate and I expect this when I go to a flower and garden show. . . .
Daniel Siebert, an amateur botanist, with Salvia divinorum. (AP Photo)
You know that beautiful Salvia plant you had growing in your garden last summer? The fragrant, purple one? It's gaining a heck of a reputation. Lawmakers in Florida and elsewhere are hip to the fact that teenagers -- among others, I'm sure -- have discovered the hallucinogenic properties of its cousin, Salvia divinorum. And you know what they say about judging a man by his friends. . . .
The weather has been miserable here over the last couple of weeks. We had a ton of snow which has been here all winter. Then it poured. Then it got REALLY cold. Now, there is a thick snow cover, but that's covered with a thick coating of ice. So, whatever little bit of melt that occurs just forms puddles because it can't possibly penetrate the ice. As I drive through the neighborhood, I see puddles on the snow-cover. It dawned on me yesterday that these are the perfect locations for RAIN GARDENS! These are the spots where the water runs and settles. REMEMBER these spots and be aware that they will be wonderful places for those RAIN GARDENS! Sometimes nature is wonderful, isn't it?
The rose was made the State flower of New York in 1955. No particular rose, mind you. Wild or cultivated, pink, yellow, red or white, bushy or climbing, fragrant or not -- any rose and every rose is New York's emblem. Maybe no one could decide. I know I'd be hard-pressed to pick just one, as there are more than 150 different species and some 20,000 hybrids out there. . . .
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"May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks, may your heart be as light as a song, may each day bring you bright, happy hours that stay with you all the year long."
~ Irish Blessing
~ Shamrock
( Oxalisregnellii)
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After a long and unrelenting winter; the stuff of weather legends, warmth (and with it, hope) returned today, in the form of the sun, which rose like thunder from behind the eastern ridge, draped in robes of orange and peach. All the birds began clearing their throats and singing from the tallest trees, the deer started racing back and forth along the far ridge in sheer joy, and the first drip-drip of snowmelt from the roof signaled a new day, and hopefully a new season... spring!
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A little "eye candy" for the container garden enthusiast!
Orange tumbled glass adds color to my bromeliad while I wait for it to bloom!
Metal Figure Model + Common Annuals= Uncommon Combo!
"Sacred Succulent Gardens"
"Simply Sorbet!"
Earthy Textures and Statuary for Your "Meditation Garden"
Zinc Planter Trio- "A Garden Within a Garden"
Just add the Bunny and make ...
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Companion planting or interplanting means growing two or more plants in the same area to achieve a specific effect. It is mainly done to keep bugs and pests away from plants. Some plants grow better with specific plants growing near them. Specific plants will attract bees which will help in pollination. Here are a few companion plants that I have discovered over the years of reading, research and experience. . . .
You know I love painting as well as gardening. I showed you one’s my “Topiary upon the wall” painting I have done in one of our rooms and after the trip to India I’m so inspired to do some more painting!... perhaps a “flowers upon the wall” room. This is one of the places in India that truly put some ideas into my head. Look at this. . . .
Another garden combination that I've grown to like, is pale lavender rhododendrons with hostas that have a lot of creamy white on their leaves. The two seem to each soften and complement the other, and the hostas planted around the "skirts" of the rhododendrons, cover their bare legs nicely... pictured is a new bed from last spring. Now add some primroses, and a bunch of early spring bulbs like crocuses and snowdrops, a half dozen lilies for late summer bloom, squeeze in a couple of hellebores, and have the whole bed invaded by bluebells, blue squills, and lamium, and you've pretty much got a typical mature flower bed from my garden. . . .
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What's the difference between a primrose and a polyanthus? They're both part of the primula family, but I'd always thought that primroses had one flower per stalk, while polyanthuses had long stalks with a cluster of flowers on top. And yet year after year, I've found that after a few weeks of producing compact, round heads of single blooms, some of the plants I'd thought to be primroses would suddenly schizophrenically shoot out a long stem with numerous flowers, breaking the symmetry of the plant. . ..
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Today I went to the Indiana Flower and Patio Show, where spring is definitely in the air. Usually about this time of year I am so sick of winter and very desperate for spring, the Flower and Patio show is like a mini spring vacation that helps me make it through the rest of the winter. . . .
What I love about this article from Green-Talk.com on how to compost old coffee grounds is the way it captures a process that is played out again and again, wherever...
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via Colors Of The Garden on 1969-12-31, 19:00:00
The rose was made the State flower of New York in 1955. No particular rose, mind you. Wild or cultivated, pink, yellow, red or white, bushy or climbing, fragrant or not -- any rose and every rose is New York's emblem. Maybe no one could decide. I know I'd be hard-pressed to pick just one, as there are more than 150 different species and some 20,000 hybrids out there. . . . 
~ Shamrock
