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September 2007 Archives
9:41 PM Sat, Sep 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon  Email
Garden bloggers worldwide email me to offer their blogs for the Garden Blogs list. Last week, Maureen Mc Ilwain wrote to tell me that Kingsbrae Gardening is the staff blog of Kingsbrae Garden, a 27-acre public garden in St Andrews......
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11:55 PM Thu, Sep 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
URI's annual GreenShare Field Day will be held Saturday, Sept. 29 (rain date is the next day) offering gardening workshops, plant sales and demonstrations. The free 10 a.m.-to-2 p.m. event will also feature a theme on renewable energy and energy......
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7:21 AM Thu, Sep 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Photo by Sheila Lennon. Click it for a larger version. Student gardeners pose with "golden" shovels at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King elementary school's new garden. The Providence school is among seven to win the first......
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3:39 PM Wed, Sep 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
In August, we put in a sandstone patio after many years of just talking about it. It took about a week with my husband and I helping the contractor, who would otherwise have been working alone. For edging, we used......
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10:02 AM Tue, Sep 25, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
Beth asked a question about transplanting peonies. Here's Steve, our photographer/peony expert's reply: "The herbaceous peonies can be transplanted easily. You will get a lots of new strong growth, plus more plants. I would not walk past a tree peony......
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10:02 AM Fri, Sep 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
One of the photographers here, Steve Szydlowski, is a peony grower in Rehoboth, Ma, with over 500 plants. He dug all the holes by himself. He grows the plants for cut flowers and harvest between 3,000 to 5,000 flowers each......
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1:03 PM Wed, Sep 19, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
I have to get serious about finding some shrubs for in front of my house. If I don't do it soon, the front will be bare all winter. Can't have that. It's not a big area, about the size of......
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7:07 PM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
'An Doineann' (The Tempest) by DJ Garrity, a sculpture in white marble, was "inspired by back-to-back gales of December along the west coast of County Donegal, Ireland." At right, the sculptor scales Abraham Lincoln's nose at Mount Rushmore. DJ......
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9:52 AM Mon, Sep 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Alma Paprika peppers Kat Kolling is a frequent commenter here, and she passes along a link that deserves a post of its own. She writes, "I found the paprika seeds of that unusually shaped variety online at Seed Savers."......
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2:08 AM Sat, Sep 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
“Living is not enough ” said the butterfly, “One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” -- Hans Christian Anderson I do not know anyone who does not love butterflies. Garden and butterfly have to go together. To......
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11:24 AM Fri, Sep 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
This is just a fast post for those who would rather click than type. You can get information about the gardening classes at URI Outreach Center at Roger Williams Park Botanical Center by applying slight downward pressure ... here. You......
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12:20 PM Thu, Sep 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
It’s the ease back, feet up, party down time of the gardening year. Signaled at Southside Community Land Trust by its annual Hoe-Down Celebration this Saturday afternoon. Clever, d’avvero? Not so much, this event, with the digging and the planting......
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12:19 PM Thu, Sep 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
When this butterfly landed on a flower -- a potted gift plant of pink verbena with yellow centers -- at the lip of my deck, I didn't notice its tattered wing. Only when I saw the photo at full......
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12:15 PM Thu, Sep 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Alex was a 31-year-old African grey parrot (they live to about 50, usually) who could count to six, was learning to say "Seven" and so much more. He died unexpectedly overnight Sept. 6 or 7. Donegal Browne ALEX HAS......
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8:00 PM Tue, Sep 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
There are numbers of garden accents that I am very fond of because they are not only decorative, but also very useful: The colorful bird-feeder The "giant" thermometer, reading 100+ degrees on August 3. Welcoming plaques And of course, the......
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1:17 PM Tue, Sep 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
Seeing this story in Britain's Telegraph newspaper reminded me of something I saw this weekend in our little corner of paradise. On the drive up to Brimfield over the weekend for the antiques/flea market, my mom and I noticed a......
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3:06 PM Mon, Sep 10, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
Before I begin, I have to mention that I no longer think the orange thing in my garden is a pumpkin after all (in my earlier blog entry). It looked like a pumpkin and it smelled like a pumpkin, but......
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11:23 PM Sun, Sep 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
The love for gardens and gardening appears to extend to all garden-related objects, including ornaments and accessories. I did not start out to collect the many items I now have in my garden. If I were to buy just one......
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7:52 AM Fri, Sep 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
Because of the drought conditions, we've been in maximum water conservation mode at home, so I keep a bucket near the sink into which I can conveniently toss water leftover from rinsing things, half-full water bottles, our rabbit's water bottle,......
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3:14 AM Fri, Sep 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
If I saw this hot pink fella in my garden I'd think I should lay off the sauce. This is just one of Bob Jensen's photos at Insectnet, where you can see it even larger. Mantis/mantid both refer to......
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3:35 PM Wed, Sep 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
I keep handy a list of local places I want to visit when I have a free day or afternoon. On Monday, Labor Day, I decided to cross one off the list and it happened to be The Fantastic Umbrella......
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