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 around 60° to 75°F during the day, dropping to below … Continue reading Primrose
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 times in order to be done correctly and to be … Continue reading Weighing Priority
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 and don’t need much care. Once in a while I … Continue reading Primrose
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 and accompanying high winds. Between the low temperature and windchill … Continue reading Survived the Frost
Petals and Wings 