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Name tags tend to be a royal pain for the person who has to wear one, but they’re useful to everyone else. This could be said of plant tags or labels as well. We see them in most public gardens and arboreta, sometimes in parks.
They can be metal, plastic, wood, stone. They sometimes impinge upon the plant they identify. But in general labels help us out when w...
I’ve just been out planting a trough in front of my house. In it I have plants from Asia and North America, plus some British-raised snowdrops. Hopefully things will settle down well and give me a nice display through the year. I look forward to being distracted by something in flower as I head out to work.
It’s a very international planting. I could have used plants f...
Here in the Mid-Atlantic Azalea Belt, our big spring show is fading fast. Even my beloved crossvine blooms are pretty much gone. But the chartreuse leaves of my ‘Ogon’ Spireas? They’re large statement plants already! The leaves emerge in late February/early March, will turn orange in the fall, and won’t drop until Christmas week, reliably. The shrubs are also reliably...
Spring is always hailed as a joy for gardeners and almost every gardener online, apart from our wonderfully honest Marianne, shows us delightful springing plants in the pleasant sunshine and we all go ‘ahhhh’. So you may go ‘ahhh’ at some of Veddw’s spring flowers. But it seems almost all my ‘ahhhs’ are accompanied by some anxiety, loss, or a sinking feeling about some job ne...
It happened in the run-up to Valentine’s Day and now I’m seeing it as Mother’s Day approaches. “Skip the flowers!” cry various online ads for a wide range of businesses. These vendors want you to buy different gifts for your valentine or mom or participate in activities that replace picking up a bouquet or arrangement. Such gift alternatives, they claim, will be more ...