The Color Purple08.19.07

Join My garden is made up of many different colored flowers, but when I look at the photos I’ve taken it seems that there are much more of some color than others. I thought I’d show you a few of my lovely purple flowers today.This flower is grown from a bulb. It’s formally [...]



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Heuchera - Easy to grow and So lovely in the Garden08.09.07

Don’t you just love the look of Heuchera leaves?
Heuchera Purple Palace leaves

They’re so colorful. I have heuchera’s growing in shady places in my garden, even below other plants that are in otherwise sunny areas. For example I’ve got coral heuchera growing underneath our ornate Japanese maple tree. The branches drop down almost to [...]



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Balloons in the garden08.08.07

Wordless Wednesday

The Balloon flower is a pretty flower once it becomes established in your garden. I have three of this bluish purple kind, as well as two white balloon flower plants and one pink balloon flower plant. Yes, I love balloon flowers. Can you tell?

In the lower right corner I think that [...]



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Choosing your Amaryllis bulbs12.28.06

Choose your Amaryllis bulbs carefully. You will find that bulbs that have started to grow while in the store displays are often stressed, and in that first year the flowers will be smaller- if they produce any at all.

You want to pick bulbs that either don’t have, or whose bud [...]



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