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Memorial Day gardening

We did some fun family things today, like going for a long bike ride to the park, having a picnic with all the kids and playing frisbee. But I also got some time in for gardening. I put the Grubex on the lawn today to protect it from grubs. I hope it works well. I […]

More about cold-hardy camellias

I posted a message to Gardenweb.com to see what people think of these cold-hardy camellias. We’ll see what they say. Also, I found a nursery website with a lot of information about camellias, including cold-hardy ones. It’s Camellia Forest at http://www.camforest.com.

Cold Hardy Camellias

This is awesome! There are camellias that I can grow here in zone 6! I didn’t know that. Here’s one I really like: SPRING`S PROMISE ICE ANGELS(R) CAMELLIA

Sagers column: The dirt on new plant varieties

Larry Sagers had a column a few weeks ago that discussed new plant varieties (see: deseretnews.com | The dirt on new plant varieties). In it, he mentioned two books I should get: In addition to Nau’s work with new varieties, he is the author of “The Ball Culture Guide,” which is the authoritative guide on […]

Ordered annual seeds today

Today, I ordered seeds for two annuals from Thompson & Morgan. They are: California poppy ‘Summer Sorbet’ – pink flowers instead of the typical orange Cosmos ‘Double Click’ – a double-flowering cosmos I was reading some reviews at Dave’s Garden on the weekend, and it looks like people have a love-hate relationship with Thompson & […]

Thompson & Morgan catalog

The Thompson & Morgan seed catalog arrived this month. It’s an awesome catalog, and it has so much information on each plant that you can use as a quick reference for many plants in your garden. I have ordered from them, and the seed is always great quality. They have some interesting varieties you often […]

Native maples

One of my garden projects this winter is chilling some bigtooth maple (Acer grandidentatum) seeds outside to see if they’ll sprout in the spring. I collected the seeds in the fall from a grove that had some really awesome red leaves. In fact, here’s a photo of me and Dana (my lovely wife) at that […]