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What I Like

• Succulent Books and Bouquet Giveaway
  To celebrate the release of  Succulents Simplified: Growing, Designing and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Plants, I’m giving away FIFTEEN succulent-themed items! My “Succulent Books and Bouquet Giveaway” continues through Sunday, June 2. Winners will be announced June 3. If you’ll be at the Succulent Celebration June 7-8 north of San Diego, you can pick up your […]
  Debra Lee Baldwin
• A Very Wet Week.
  The colours in my garden are becoming so muted - the word 'dull' seems unfair, because my garden is doing its very best. There are no fizzy pink roses to catch my eye, just wet foliage covered with a grey-blue wash. It's been a very wet week.
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• Et par dejlige tulipaner
  To skønne tulipaner, som jeg glæder mig over lige nu, er den rosa ’Angelique’ og den grønhvide ’Spring Green’.       De klæder virkelig hinanden.
  Claus Dalby
• Plant of the Day: Hardy Begonia
  Just when I was sure no hardy begonia  (Begonia grandis) had survived the weather ups and downs, and all the garden creatures this winter and spring, my husband found some growing in the mazus at one end of the patio. I wound up finding a couple more close by, and today I transplanted one of them to what I thought would be a better place in the garden. By th […]
  Daricia McKnight
• Another Flower Flaunt Friday ... Getting closer to Winter Here!
  Today is a beautiful cool late Autumn day.  Overnight the temp dropped down to around 15 deg C (59 F), and right now at 9.00 am it's a gorgeous 19 deg C  (66 F).  For us, that's a rather cool morning!  The air is crisp, cool and fresh.  Our marvellous wintertime is not far off now.Out in the garden things have slowed down considerably in terms of b […]
  Bernie H
• Let og lyst
  Her ser I endnu en buket med årstidens blomster.     Bemærk, den skønne vase, som jeg synes passer rigtig fint til buketten.         I det hele taget tager jeg ofte udgangspunkt i vasen og plukker først ind, når jeg har valgt den.
  Claus Dalby
• Our Parade of Annuals...
  There's no better way to add color to your gardens than with annuals.  That's especially true in my Zone 5 gardens  where the Summer's are HOT  and the Winter's are FREEZING. I've been on a planting frenzy... Just a "Few" of our Empty Pots Our gardens are getting ready for a   SWEET CELEBRATION and we've been planting […]
  Carolyn ♥
• What makes a winning garden at RHS Chelsea? Let the people decide!
  Trailfinders Australian Garden designed by Phil Johnson won Best in Show and a Gold medal at Chelsea this year As RHS Chelsea opened its doors to the public for the third day of the centenary Flower Show, it appeared that all was not well among the horticultural fraternity when Christopher Bradley-Hole, creator of this year's Telegraph Garden, questione […]
  Charlotte
• On the Transience of Garden Fads
  "It was visited by all the gentlemen and gentlewomen for the size and beauty of its flower.  But now it is so vulgar that no one cares about it".Ulisse Aldrovandi on  the first "Peruvian Chrysanthemum" seen in Italy (actually a sunflower), planted in Bologna in 1594.  Seen above in his 18 volume Tavole di piante, available online in its e […]
  arcady
• Mark's Veg Plot in May
  At this time of year, my plot aways looks busy. It is crowded with pots, seed-trays, mini-greenhouses etc - lots of things in temporary accommodation, being "hardened-off", that's to say being gradually accustomed to outdoor life. Most years, by the middle of May I have put my frost-tender plants like chillis, tomatoes and cucumbers, outside i […]
  noreply@blogger.com (Mark Willis)