Subscribe
A Gardener’s Reading
Blogroll
- American Potager
- Blundering Gardener
- Cold Climate Gardening
- Common Weeder
- Garden Designers' Roundtable
- Garden Drama
- Garden Rant
- Gardener Susan
- Gardening While Intoxicated
- Get Busy Gardening
- Home to Homestead
- I Love My Garden, Too
- In Lee's Garden Now
- In the Garden Online
- Life on the Balcony
- Mr. Brown Thumb
- Mr. McGregor's Daughter
- New Home Economics
- Northern Gardening
- Over the Backyard Fence
- Penelopedia
- Renegade Gardener
- The Dirt
- The Garden Buzz
- The Garden Professors
Subscribe
-
Category Archives: Seasons
Opening Weekend for Gardeners
Imagine if the hunter or fisherperson in your household was told that the opening weekend had been moved back two, maybe three weeks? Anxiety? Disappointment? Lots of pent-up energy? Yes, to all that, as we gardeners well know having endured … Continue reading
Posted in Landscaping, Seasons, Weather
Tagged 5-by-5 Challenge, Chiot's Run, pansies, plant lettuce
Leave a comment
Our Fast-Forward Fall
How fast has fall come on this year? Check out the three photos below, each taken about one day apart last week. I took the first one because it seemed the ash tree out my kitchen window had gone from … Continue reading
Planting Peas with the Peepers
This morning while walking the dog around the ponds near our house, I heard a chorus of squeaks and peeps. The spring peepers are finally singing. This is late for them, but within the range of when peepers herald spring. … Continue reading
Posted in Fruits and Vegetables, Seasons
Tagged phenology, spring peepers, when to plant peas
1 Comment
Tulip Time — At Last
Wednesday was the first day I noticed a few tulips blooming, and a few more opened up Thursday and Friday, and a few more this morning. Could it be a sign spring is indeed on its way?
Posted in Bulbs, Seasons
2 Comments
Garden Time Management
The truly unpleasant weather we’ve experienced the past few weeks — snow flurries on May 2 with constant winds above 15 mph, no thank you! — has put me a little behind in my garden chores. I’ve been nurturing along … Continue reading
Posted in Seasons
Tagged Away to Garden, Margaret Roach, Melinda Myers, Month by Month Gardening in Minnesota
1 Comment
Daffodil Days
The spring bulbs are slowly starting to bloom. On Sunday, I noticed the fritillaria, a small, but unusually colored bulb was blooming. Monday, the daffodils that brighten up my raspberry bed also opened up. In the dim light before sunset, … Continue reading
Bud Break
The trees and shrubs are trying — really trying — to open up and welcome spring. We can hope that yesterday’s snow was the last of this long, long winter. From left to right above are: Red twig dogwood leaves … Continue reading
Posted in Amazing Plants, Seasons
4 Comments
The Bees are Back!
It was so exciting to see a trio of bees really working over the crocus in my front yard this afternoon. Other bees were gathering pollen from my neighbor’s patch of crocus. If you blow up the more horizontal picture … Continue reading
Look What’s Been Under All That Snow
I was poking around the front yard this morning, trying to minimize any stepping on the yard or gardens, and what should be showing itself now that the snow has melted: Tulip leaves. A good sign to see in the … Continue reading