Garden

My favorite shade plants: flowering, easy-care perennials.

Best shade-loving plants! Flowering shade perennials, come back year after year, and are maintenance free!!

Before I had a blog, I had a garden. I used to do things like go to Master Gardener lectures. About plant pathology. And conifer identification. And intro to entomology. For fun!! (But also because I paid absolutely no attention in eighth-grade science.) So this is a departure from anything house-renovation related, but the shade garden is just coming […]

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Dahlias. Bigger than my head.

Best dahlia ever! The dahlia show at Longwood Gardens

The Dahlia Show is at Longwood Gardens!! Earlier this summer, I had proselytized on behalf of Benary Giant Zinnia. But I’m amending that recommendation…

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Benary Giant Zinnia… and a free giant rock.

Benary giant zinnia cutting garden and a free giant rock.

When we first moved in, we had this giant rock on our front lawn. It was just one of the many unexplainable objects d’art collected by the previous owner. Landscaping was low on our priority list, but the rock irritated me, so I put it on craigslist. Anytime I give something away on craigslist, I […]

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