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• Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: June 2014

  

  Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day on the 15th of each month. I’m a little bit behind. It’s starting to get hot, but the yarrow,... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 GARDENING

• Summertime’s Flower: Gardenia

  

  Summer is here for certain. I know not because of my calendar, but because my gardenia hedge is blooming. I planted the hedge in 2005 from very small plants. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2014 GARDENING

• Garden Log, 6.13.14

  The tomatoes overgrew their stakes, and it’s only mid-June. I removed the stakes and replaced them with a trellis. The trellis uprights are two 1-inch bamboo... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 GARDENING

• Dear Friend and Gardener: June 13, 2014

  Dear Friend and Gardener, A hot and muggy week, with downpours every night. This is the summer weather I remember from childhood. Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 GARDENING

• Digging Durham: Is This a Great Library, Or What?

  

  As I mulched the vegetables yesterday before the temperatures hit 93 (34C), I thought about the second sowings I need to get started. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 GARDENING

• Dear Friend and Gardener: June 6, 2014

  

  Dear Friend and Gardener, Just a quick postcard to tell you I’ve started harvesting my green beans. The peas continue against all expectations. Nasturtiums and... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2014 GARDENING

• Garden Log, 6.4.14

  

  Picked the first green beans of the year on Sunday, June 1. I can’t believe I’m still harvesting peas. ‘Cascadia’ seem to be doing very well. Tomatoes and... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 GARDENING

• Gardening as Spiritual Practice: Food and Joy

  

  I’m thinking more about why I garden. I’ll try to reflect on this topic twice a month. I welcome your thoughts on why you garden (or don’t). Why I Garden: Food... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 GARDENING

• Edible Groundcovers

  

  Grass is an expensive groundcover. Many homeowners love the calming look of a broad green carpet welcoming them home from work, but to keep their lawns looking... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 GARDENING

• Growing Unusual Fruit: Cornelian Cherries

  

  The third unusual fruit I ordered some weeks ago is a cornelian cherry tree. Not a real cherry, but a dogwood relative, cornelian cherry (Cornus mas), offers... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 GARDENING

• Dear Friend and Gardener: 30 May, 2014

  

  Dear Friend and Gardener, Memorial Day, the traditional if unofficial beginning of summer, was last Monday, and it definitely feels like summer. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 GARDENING

• Offenders Get Jail Time for Ginseng Poaching in the Great Smoky Mountains...

  

  Last month, two men were convicted of poaching ginseng from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. These men illegally harvested 11 pounds of roots, some of... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2014 GARDENING

• Summer Gardening Skills: Perseverance

  

  It’s getting to that point in the season when I feel that heading out into garden demands mental toughness. The weeds are well out of control. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 GARDENING

• Delightful Peony ‘Sarah Bernhardt’

  

  I’ve seldom had luck with peonies–probably because they didn’t get enough sun in my heavily shaded garden. But after last year’s renovation, for which we remove... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 GARDENING

• Growing Unusual Fruit: Honeyberries

  

  In addition to lingonberries, my recent purchase of unusual fruiting plants included honeyberries. Honeyberries are an edible honeysuckle, Lonicera caerulea. Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 GARDENING

• Growing Unusual Fruit: Lingonberries

  

  My growing obsession with unusual fruit reached its tipping point a few weeks ago, when I placed an order for a few new edible landscaping items: A cornelian... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 GARDENING

• Taking a Deep Breath, Again: Calming (myself) After the Storm

  

  We knew rain was coming yesterday. They sky was gray all morning, and I swept up piles of pollen from our deck and dumped them in a large green tub before the... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 GARDENING

• Mulching as Spiritual Practice

  

  I need to mulch. Mulching is a garden chore. Although it provides a great benefit to the plants by keeping roots cool, suppressing weeds, stabilizing soil... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 GARDENING

• Wordless Wednesday: David Austin Roses

  

  Rosa ‘Generous Gardener’ Rosa ‘Abraham Darby’ Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2014 GARDENING

• Peony ‘Festiva Maxima’

  

  This lovely thing bloomed yesterday. There are many more deliciously fat buds on the plant, all the size of golf balls. Barring a hailstorm–which, this being... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2014 GARDENING