Join Cleomes are strange looking flowers. They grow on long stocks and bloom as they grow. They have long spidery things that stick out all around the blooms giving them their strange look. I plant these flowers along the back edge of my garden. They grow to approximately 4 feet tall so they help screen [...]
Back in 2002/2003 when my husband and I landscaped our backyard and created our raised bed garden I’d wanted to grow plants that would attract butterflies and birds to the garden. I spent the winter researching plants that would thrive in my area and that would attract butterflies. If they happened to have scent that [...]
It feels like it’s gotten so cold outside! I think that’s only partly true though. I’m sick again with fever and sore stomach so I’m just freezing, even inside my own home! Looking outside at the garden that I don’t dare walk in when I’m feeling this cold indoors I can see that the leaves [...]
