How are you keeping yourself busy this month? Have you been spending time thinking about your garden? Reading gardening magazines and books? If you’re like me you probably have a number of seed and plant related catalogues to read. I think mine started being delivered in the mail from late [...]
Gardening glossary of terms
When you’re new to gardening, you might not understand all of the terms that are used on the various gardening websites that you might encounter so I thought that it might be a great idea to post some of the more common terms and explain them.
Annual: a plant that completes it [...]
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The pelargonium is often mistaken for, and sometimes even mislabeled in home centers as a geranium. It’s related but it most definitely is not a geranium. I grow these flowers in the summer - putting them in my hanging baskets, pots, and window boxes. The flowers come in many different colours and they bloom on [...]
Datura, also known as the Devil’s Trumpet
I teased everyone the other day by showing a photo of a datura seed pod and making them guess what it was. I did promise that I would write about the Datura plant in that post though - so here it is.
Depending on what area of the [...]
