Backyard Nature Lover's Experience
Tough Little Plants When spring weather has not stabilized and frost is not yet out of the picture, not many plants are well equipped to deal with left-over extremes. Primrose (Primula) is one of the early spring flowers that can deal with a wider than normal range of temperatures. Recently the temperatures locally have been... Continue Reading →
Weighing Priority: To Blog Or Not To Blog Spring is finally here, though a little too cold for April. There are plenty of things to do in the garden and most of them are time sensitive. Cleaning up dead stalks, feeding, pruning, training, mulching, starting the seedlings...they all need to be done at certain... Continue Reading →
Portrait of Beauty I don't remember when I fell in love with Primrose (Primula). I just noticed that the variety of colors have increased in our garden and I still look for new colors to add to our collection. These little prim looking flowers are tougher than they look. They stay close to the ground... Continue Reading →
Still Alive and Blooming The temperature has been going up and down like a yo-yo. We hit 70 degrees last week, then dropped down to 25 degrees this past Tuesday night, one night only! I rushed home from work to cover the vegetable seedlings that had already sprouted. They're too tender to take the frost... Continue Reading →
Petals and Wings 