Month: August 2024

A data for U.S.-based cold-climate gardeners

The holidays are over. Seeds have been ordered (or not–I decided to take a break from seed sowing). The temperature is dropping (-5°F tonight) and the wind is blowing (wind chill advisory in impression). Time to binge-watch some gardening displays. I’ve been watching BBC 2’s Gardeners’ World for quite a…

This Yard Art work Is For The Birds, And It Needs Your Help

By Kathy Purdy February 4, 2022 – Posted in: Hardscaping and Duties, How-to I first seen these architectural birdhouses plenty of years up to now, throughout the grocery retailer, of all places. I resisted them until they went on sale, after which I couldn’t resist the least bit. It’s the…

A Drone’s-Eye View Of My Yard

By Kathy Purdy February 26, 2022 – Posted in: New Residence, New Gardens My son has a drone digital digicam and captured these images of our dwelling and panorama in January. It’s on a regular basis good to get a particular view of the yard. I’ve numbered quite a few…

Mud Season Pruning Chores

Pruning is the one gardening chore you’ll be able to do in mud season, because of your vegetation (and the weeds!) are nonetheless frozen throughout the ground. It’s an unbelievable excuse to get exterior and do one factor–exact gardening! The local weather could also be very unsettled all through mud…

January Thaw Stroll-About

The local weather’s been crazy, to put it mildly. I do know a number of the nation has endured comparable: a thaw the week sooner than Christmas, a sudden drop to unseasonably frigid temperatures, and (as quickly as all people’s trip plans have been screwed up) a return to unseasonably…

The Good Yard Rescue

Transferring Crops Out of Harm’s Method Sooner than Constructing Begins A 12 months up to now ultimate March, I found that renovations had been deliberate for our residence. The kitchen was going to be bumped out onto the deck, so that it was even with the screened porch. The screened…

Sissinghurst Fortress Yard Half II

There could also be lots further to Sissinghurst Fortress Yard than I can pretty cowl. How does one even scratch the ground in only a few phrases? Between my first publish from remaining week and this, Half II, I hope to on the very least doc our go to on a…

November Yard

Among the many many daydreams of our newest yard adventures in England is the true life yard at home proper right here at Chickadee Gardens. Sooner than I delve proper right into a deep Good Dixter daydream for the next couple of posts (the ultimate place we visited in England),…

Let’s Go: Good Dixter Half I

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Let’s Go: Good Dixter Half II

This place haunts my objectives. Truly. Honest to goodness unconscious objectives. I wake feeling joyful. I don’t suppose that has occurred sooner than, i.e., dreaming of gardens I’ve visited. What alchemy is at work, I am questioning? Along with the unconscious kind, I’ve waking objectives when working in my very…

England: The Leisure

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December Yard

The phrase of the month is: Rain. Oy, it has been moist this main half of December with 8.01 inches inside the first 9 days. There was a dry-ish second in the middle of all of it as soon as I managed to maneuver out with my digicam for a…

Cistus Nursery

I prefer to play outside with my digital digital camera. Simply currently I’ve been taking footage for our newly revamped web page at Cistus Nursery; uncover the web page proper right here! Bridget has been laborious at work on the revamp, and I really feel the web page seems fabulous. I…

2023: The Yr in Consider

Proper right here we’re, embarking on 2024 stuffed with hope and promise. The yard does that, affords one hope and promise whatever the grim data we see on our screens. I’m going to take a yard any day over a cellphone or laptop computer, nevertheless nonetheless, it’s a time of…