Growing Monkshood04.15.08

It’s amazing how many plants are coming up in my garden. Every time I either look outside or go outside to look at the garden I notice how much the plants have grown or new green shoots coming up in areas that were barren the day before.
The monkshood is already making an appearance:

This is […]

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Spectacular Toad Lilies in the Fall Garden12.24.07

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I think the Toad Lily is one of the most unusual flowers that I grow.

In the Spring the plant appears as small sprouts emerging from the ground with several oblong green leaves. As summer passes the Toad lily plant grows to about two or two and a half feet in height in the form […]

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Time to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas Catus’11.23.07

I have two cactus like plants. One is a Thanksgiving Cactus and the other is of the same species, Schlumbergera, and is known as a Christmas Cactus.

General care for plants of the Schlumbergera species is to give them moderate to bright light in the Spring and Summer months. Lighting depends upon exactly which […]

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The sunflowers survived11.04.07

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Remember all those sunflowers that I had to chop down to only three feet in early September because I got a citation from the city saying they were too tall? Well, they lived after they were brutally chopped and they’ve continued to produce blooms.

I really thought the sunflowers would die after having half their […]

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