The rain continues here, making southeastern Wisconsin just one of many places with totally depressing weather this week. At least we’re not experiencing the storms and flooding that so many other areas are.Anyway, it’s putting a major damper on my ability to take some pictures of what is happening in the yard, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to ...
You know you have issues when you set out to just take the dogs to the beach for a walk and you end up 45 minutes later driving your lawn mower down the beach. But that’s exactly what happened on Sunday. This was the view from the lawn mower on Sunday. It’s way too early for lawn mowing here, but ...
Far be it for me to tell the producers of a successful PBS show how to do their jobs, but I think the people who make “P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home” are missing out on a golden opportunity. Turns out the guy is funny. Really funny. And trust me, after watching almost every episode of the show ever made (and ...
Pruning is one of the most difficult thing for some gardeners to do. I think deep down inside we know it’s a good thing for our plants, but it’s still hard to cut away growth that we’ve worked so hard for. Last year I pruned my Hydrangea ‘Limelight’ down to about 4 feet tall for the first time. It loved ...
Four gorgeous flowers on this ‘Red Peacock’ amaryllis. Zoom out a little and you see the bulb did this all on her own. It’s still in the paper bag it came in! For several years I’ve purchased amaryllis bulbs from the yahoo plant co-op I’m a member of, potted them up and given them away as holiday gifts. They are ...
I’m very excited to share a little Q&A session with talented garden designer Jack Barnwell. I found out who Jack was last summer after spending years admiring one of his designs without knowing who was behind it. I make it a point to visit the garden at the Hotel Iroquois on the island every year and it continues to be ...
If you follow The Impatient Gardener on Facebook or Twitter, you know that Mr. Much More Patient and I are having a, um, discussion about the future of the back yard. For years, he’s been bugging me to create a real path out to the detached garage so we don’t have to walk over the grass. He’s right about it: ...
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