Firmly rooted in the Oklahoma soil
If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you may have noticed Bill and I went with our friends, Layanee from Ledge and Gardens, Mary Ann from Gardens of the Wild Wild West, and Cindy from My Corner of Katy, along with several new friends to East Anglia, UK. We spent most of our time in Norfolk and Suffolk. I posted loads of photos as we traveled, and I'm just now home and Read More
Rain is the big news at my Little Cedar Garden. It rained the entire time I was in Denver for the Garden Bloggers' Fling. It rained when I returned home, and on Saturday night, Sunday morning and this morning. Hemerocallils 'Tuxedo Gent' (Pearce 2011) is really, really dark. As I went outside to grab these photos before church, the mosquitoes were thick. Eight landed on Read More
This was the cutting garden in 2015 before we built raised beds It was a full-on zinnia garden that year. This photo is of my cutting garden in previous, happier summers. I'm telling myself it can again be this good if I try, try again. This will be the third planting of sunflowers, cosmos, and zinnias in the cutting garden, and I'm hoping the third time's a charm. Read More
I tested Red Racer tomato last year for the AAS. It was a great plant that produced a lot of fruit on a very small plant. It does get some disease, but it didn't overwhelm the plant. I've worked all spring to get you a list of the tomatoes I'm trying this summer. You would think that for the queens of the vegetable garden I would make extensive lists and such, but, although Read More
Our dock in the high water of our pond after the rains. We're supposed to get more rain tonight. I hope that doesn't happen. Two days before Monday, Oklahomans were warned it was going to be a bad day, a "high risk" weather day. That afternoon, I was recording this week's Gardenangelists podcast on clematis, aggressive vs. invasive plants and vegetable gardening with Carol Read More
