2nd garden–2009

January 15, 2009 Abutilon ‘Marilyn’s Choice’ Shh! They don’t know it’s January, the depths of winter. They’re obliviously blooming in the new-baby garden—not a lot of them, mind you, but enough to make the Bloom Day hunt worthwhile. The ‘Pam’s Pink’ Turk’s cap (Malvaviscus drummondii) is surprising me with its ...

January 13, 2009 I’d heard all the fuss. Yes, they looked nice in catalog pictures. Even when I found I’d inherited a couple in my new garden, I didn’t really get heucheras. Annie in Austin came over the day after we moved in for a quick tour of the garden-to-be ...

January 12, 2009 Bwah ha ha! Here’s my latest raid stash from my old garden at the Unsold House. It’s like having my own personal nursery over there. I know—it doesn’t look like much now, but in each battered pot I see the potential for foliage and flower in my ...

January 03, 2009 My first post of the new year shows me still raiding the garden of the Unsold House, this time for a statuesque softleaf yucca (Y. recurvifolia ), visible at back, to anchor a newly dug patch of dirt below the raised beds. How could I leave this ...