Looking across the meadow it was clear that the only really successful plant was the original grass. The meadow had sheep on it for many years but I had been told that if I cut the grass really short and scarified the ground before planting the wild flower mix then it should be OK. Cl...
Photo by Spring Meadow Nursery. ‘Lynwood Gold’ (syn. ‘Lynwood’, ‘Lynwood Variety’) Forsythia x intermedia Zones: 6-9 Height/Spread: Upright spreading habit, 6 to 9 feet tall and wide An old reliable standby, this larger shrub can be used as a striking focal point in the landscape...
As the title of this post suggests, this is not a new topic in our blog. (You can read other related postshere,here, andhere.) What was so stunning about these garden meadows (meadow gardens?) was the scale and effortless beauty. For instance, consider this tree-lined parkway at Kew,...
Also as of 2020, there’s clear evidence that left undisturbed, many forms’ flowering times creep a little earlier each year – possibly because replacement bulbs tend to end up nearer the soil surface. If you want to plan for a long season of snowdrops within a garden, having a good ...
*Thanks to Illinois Power Company and Verizon Communications (formerly General Telephone Company) having located their official home offices in Monticello years ago to take advantage of the low taxes, further resulting in an unusually large distribution of the corporate replacement tax, and ultimately ...
Howell’s Spectacular Thelypody is a mustard family flowering plant featuring tightly packed clusters of white to purple blooms. This Oregon native is listed as critically “imperiled” by the US state. With most of its natural meadow habitat gone due to agriculture, only five remain–all in ...
The little bit of treed earth beneath the September 11, 2011 full “corn moon” below is a cliff of roughly 1.4 billion-year-old Precambrian Shield that forms the shore of Lake Muskoka, north of Toronto, where we have a cottage (and where I blog about my meadow gardens). In aboriginal...
What would you like your epitaph to be? Here lies a Mailman who tried to deliver. Alas, she is now marked “return to sender.” Do you have a favorite cemetery song to add to the playlist? Yes, Hozier’s “In a Week.” I remember listening to it the first time, my eyes widening...
there’s clear evidence that left undisturbed, many forms’ flowering times creep a little earlier each year – possibly because replacement bulbs tend to end up nearer the soil surface. If you want to plan for a long season of snowdrops within a garden, having a good idea ofrelativeflower...