Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother’s Day
to all the flower loving moms out there! Here are just some pretty pictures to enjoy. It is a no “weeding” day, but maybe a “planting” [...]

Pearl Farmer's Market May 9, 2009

Pearl Farmer’s Market, May 09, [...]

Club Garden Tour

We had our first club garden tour today by the 3 Oaks TEEA (Texas Extension Education Association). About 20 members strolled through the gardens with JoNelle. Since this has been a late season so far, there weren’t that many blooms on the daylilies, but a few specialty ones, Forbidden Fantasy, Fiery Temper, and Francois Verhaert [...]

Bearded Iris Beginning to Bloom

Yesterday I had a couple of different bearded iris that were beginning to bloom. The first was Hello Darkness, a tall bearded, which as you can see is a dark beauty as the name implies. The second and quite a surprise was YoYo which is a dwarf. I had just looked at my potted bearded [...]

ABCs Of Bulb Gardening

Flowering plants that overwinter and multiply by means on fleshy stems of leaves are called bulbs. The bulbs we grow in our gardens today are native to temperate zones all over the world, the woodlands, meadows and mountains of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and North America. The Dutch have been extremely successful over the centuries in collection and hybridizing new species of bulbs and improving them for reliable garden performance. Tulips in particular, once played an important role in the Dutch [...]

Pearl Farmer's Market, May 2, 2009

Pearl Farmer’s Market, May 2, 2009 Plant listing Potted: Winsome Lady, Strawberry Candy, Bitsy, Chorus Line, Royal Palace Prince Mulberry Connection – specialty
Marked By Lydia – specialty In Style -specialty Coronal Light – specialty Bare root: Hyperion Mixed Bearded Iris – 1 gal pots – various Gladiolus – 1gal pots Freesias – 4″ pots Crocosmia Lucifer – 4″ pots sedums – 4″ pots ranunculus – 4″ pots elephant plant – 4″ pots peacock orchids (absynian glads) – 4″ pots Dahlias – Bishops Children 4″ [...]