It’s been a busy month both in and out of the garden. The cabbage went to soup; eight mini ones (those that didn’t swell) with some of the beetroot. My wife made lots of kimchi with the hakusai. I’ve been trying to manage the consumption of the latter around teaching. On Tuesday I espied the. . .

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Isn't it fascinating how quickly insects can find your plants? One minute your plant leaves are barely unfurled and the next, they're being eaten. Spring rains, as...

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Each month has a flower associated with it, just like each month has a birth stone associated with it. Why not use your birth month flower in your garden?

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Is it best to propagate cacti by using cuttings? (answer).

From The Old Farmer's Almanac.

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We have a very special guest photographer today. My little girl noticed the cardinals at the feeder yesterday evening and asked for the camera. She shot these photos through the window during the snow storm with a low battery (hence the fuzziness) but she still did a great job. . ..

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This time we are going to make a journey through time, to one of the most famous of Dutch gardens; the gardens of palace Het Loo (pronounced Het Low) near Apeldoorn. It may sound like an odd name but the old fashioned word loo means an open space in the woods and as such it's a very apt name. . . .

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I have posted this note from the WaterKeeper Organization (they’ve targeted garden writers and you’ll see it posted all over the Net on different garden blogs/sites in the next few weeks). I have also asked the Louisiana Forestry Assoc and their Secondary Producers Trade Association for comments and responses. . . .

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This bunch of plants had only one flower and several buds showing this past Sunday. Three fairly mild days later there's a bouquet.

The Chionodoxa, "Glory of Snow", is related to Scilla and Hyacinths. I think they compare favorably with Scilla. The name Chinodoxa is a scientific name which translates to "glory of snow". . . .

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Late afternoon on Monday, as I was getting my veggie garden weeded and dug, I looked up in the sky. Way high, there was a flock of maybe a hundred birds, and they looked like swallows. There was no sound from them, so I wasn't sure. I was riveted, and just watched as they flew past, some of them in a diagonal line here and there, all flying into the northwest. . . .

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This was the thing I noticed in the garden..Its amazing what we see sometimes and what other people see in the same place. . . .

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"How now, mad spirit!
What night-rule now about this haunted grove."

Will Shakespeare

It's believed that on the night of the vernal equinox, Crocus Dell at the foot of the ancient Oak is the site of much reverie as all the faeries and elves of Olde Breuckelen celebrate the end of winter. They sup on the nectar of a thousand snow crocus that bloom here in the week prior and the locals know to bolt fast their doors and windows to thwart their drunken mischief.

OK, I made that up. I became a little boy again with a head full of fantastical nonsense the minute I saw this carpet of crocus at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Fairies and Elves live here I thought to myself -for sure, and that giant eye on the oak- that's to ward off Goblins.

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Looking back over March, I can't believe so much has happened. This month now seems like a year. Lots of good and lots of difficult times. So, please excuse this self-indulging post before I get on with the 2008 gardening season. . ..

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The Palm Garden, Florida
Botanical Garden,
Largo

I don't care how ugly you are, you just look better after a month in the Florida sunshine. There's a smile on your face, a new bounce to your walk, a new rosiness to your checks and color on your pale skin. I know its an old cliche but I wish I could" bottle and sell that sunshine. "Boy would I be rich . . . .

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I just got some koi from a friend and now my pond is a muddy mess and stinks and my water lilies are dying. Do I need to clean the whole thing out and start over?. . .

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Although "tulip trees" are so called from the appearance of their flowers, it is their leaves that I find to be of greatest interest. Tulip trees (also nicknamed, "yellow poplars")...

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Today is a lovely day with highs in the mid-fifties. I have a few of my windows open and have been enjoying listening to the birds. I sat outside on the patio for a little while and decided I was in the mood to work on a neighborhood project.

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Mud, mud, glorious mud.. It rained virtually the whole time I was up at the allotment today. The third bed has been forked over.It needs double digging when it drys up.
I added some sand to the boggy first bed by the compost bin. Even simple turning the soil has made the drainage improve slightly.It needs to be dry before I can remove the weed roots and devil grass that is encased in clay... ..

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So many beautiful things in life ask something of us as observers.
Attention. Patience. A willingness to ‘give it up’.
Yesterday I noticed the first of many violet blooms to come in the ‘sea-of-Leptinella’ bed near my back door. I was standing upright at the time, and those three perfect little violet flowers appeared from my 7 to 10 foot distance as radiant, violet-colored dots vibrating within a bed of muted earth-tones. Beautiful, yes, but not very telling or very intimate. . . .

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Good morning and welcome to my garden! We had snow on Easter and it's still pretty frosty around here. What a difference when you take a look at my last week's pictures here!

Are we really marching towards spring? I can hardly believe it when I look out of the window! We had snow on Easter and it has been snowing all night long on Wednesday. . .

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Buddha Belly Plant
Jatropha podagrica
(JAT-roh-fuh) (pod-AG-ree-kuh)
Synonym: Bottleplant Shrub, Goutystalk Nettlespurge

J is for Jatropha this week. Some of the plants in this genus are being studied for use in producing biodiesel. I don’t think this particular species is, it is primarily grown as an ornamental. It has a most unusual trunk that grows in the shape of a bottle. . . .

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Japanese Flowering Apricot
Prunus mume 'Peggy Clarke'
(PROO-nus) (MEW-may)

This tree was blooming in the Ladies Border at the NYBG. It is really early and the flowers were a welcomed sight. This is the first time I have seen this cultivar and it is much different then the shrubby white flowered version of Prunus mume growing at the Estate. . . .

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I'll post my backyard Pink Hawthorne today and the Pink Hawthorne that is growing in the front tomorrow. The difference shows what a good pruning can do for your garden. The Pink Hawthorne in the backyard

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A new addition to the garden is a perennial shrub. It is adorned with beautiful blooms which are white and magenta with a yellow stamen.

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Galanthus woronowii (wor-uh-nov-ee-eye) is a species that is sometimes called the 'green snowdrop', because of its very distinctive leaves, which are broad and deep, waxy green. It is native from Turkey up through the Caucasus to southern Russia and it is particularly common on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. Because its native haunts are rather dry, it tolerates dryness in the garden, and a fair amount of sun. The flowers are rather small in proportion to the lush foliage, and ghostly pale. The green marking on the inner petals is also distinctive, looking somewhat blocky, like a molar tooth rather than the more common upside down heart seen for example on Galanthus elwesii. Also noteworthy is the prominent notch on each inner petal at the base of each green spot. This is a rapidly multiplying snowdrop for me, and has quickly formed a dense clump that needs dividing this year, so in only three years my original six bulbs have become thirty. I am almost at that point where I can drop a little comment now and then about how most of the obscure snowdrop species don't seem to do well for other people here in the midwest, but this one is becoming quite a pest for me.

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Some of you have heard rumors about these new events and we are just starting the publicity machine rolling in earnest for them. We have partnered with Behnke Nurseries to present three unique events for area gardeners this spring -- an Azalea Show, Flower Show, and Perennial Show. . . .

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In a previous post, I mentioned that I had another orchid blooming, though I'm not sure which Phalaenopsis it is. It was labeled 'Wedding Promenade,' but its spots tell me it isn't. It's not a huge deal to me, but I do like knowing a plant's name if possible. This is one of my bargain orchids I picked up several weeks ago at Lowe's. . . .

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TOPIARY

This is my new "ballballconeballballcone flower bed" with Buxus that I planted last autumn.This picture is not a black and white photo, it's March... I thought that the winter was gone but oh no. I know ....it is pretty with snow but I'm so fed up with the winter and I want my garden to be in colour - lush and green! Come spring and make it green!Now and then, oh I really do prefere my garden in colour.

TYRA

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From coast to coast, slugs and snail seem to cause problems wherever they go. I've gotten laments from the west. . . .

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Heuchera (Coral bells), left, and Helleborus add color to shady spots.

Kathy, a reader from Little Neck, wrote, asking for plant suggestions for her shady plot. And she mentioned that hostas "don't grow well" for her. . . .

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Technically a vine, Mandevilla often is grown in a large pot and allowed to climb on a trellis. It thrives outdoors in partial sun. For overwintering indoors, it should be brought inside in early autumn, when daytime temperatures dip into the 60s. In late spring, when temperatures consistently reach the 70s, Mandevillas can be moved outdoors for another season. But what to do in between?. ..

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This little book by Barbara W. Ellis seems to have a Napoleon complex - tiny in size with such a boastful title - so I was skeptical of its claims. . . .

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These past few days, I have spent some bopping around Lancaster. Enough to know that it is mostly desert country. Mohave desert country to be specific. Beautiful in its own terribly dry and scorching hot way. It is a place where a grass lawn looks startlingly out of place. (And yet people still try to. . .

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Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve is home to gleaming hillsides and fields of native gold and yellow poppies each spring.

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