Gardener's Delight

Lamb's Ears are among the most beautiful weeds in the world. Once seeded, they tend to pop up everywhere. This blog will be something like that--a variety of things popping up:
Animals, flowers, landscaping, trees, shrubs, anything from the tremendous variety of nature.

We may review a few books and products.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Forget-Me-Nots -- Great Ground Patterns



Sylvatica is the Latin Name for this plant. It's widely known as Forget Me Not, a beautiful name for a beautiful flower. The blooms are quite small, but highly intelligent, and a peculiar blue.

Plant them in a patch, in half-shade if possible, and they will grow in just about any kind of soil. From a distance, the lovely blue color will look like a cloudy carpet on the forest floor (assuming you are lucky enough to have a forest).

Sylvatic is self-seeding, so once you get them started, they jump all around the place. They're very festive, often given as gifts. Give me some.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Garden Tips: Renovate Your Strawberries Annually, Page 2 of 3 - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

Garden Tips: Renovate Your Strawberries Annually, Page 2 of 3 - A very good article on strawberries. We planted some last year for the first time and were surpised at the output. According to this article, we have to take action for the fruits to develop this year.... Click on the headline--it will take you to Fern Fischer's great article....