Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label contests

Featured

A Visit to Cistus Nursery

I rarely go to nurseries anymore since I work part-time at one and another reason being that I don't have much room for additional plants. When a garden fanatic runs out of room, the brain goes into overdrive, dreaming up ingenious ways to incorporate more plants. And another thing happens - a burning desire to obtain rare and unique plants. I've been moving plants around, a tricky process that has a domino effect. A plant is unhappy - it is getting too much shade or perhaps too much sun. There is a plant that did not get as large as you thought it would or it is just a slow grower and now it is hopelessly hidden behind a taller plant. Sometimes a plant is just a dud for reasons unknown (Rhododendron 'Golden Gate' anyone?). I find the plant in question a better home, but it means that another plant will have to be moved. And the merry-go-round continues to turn... However, for those plants that are to be discarded, a space opens up for a new one! I decided to move a Mou...

Book review and give-away - "The Speedy Garden"

The Layered Garden - a book review and give-away

Book review and giveaway

Gardening if for the birds...er, chickens

Win an unabridged CD audiobook of "Wicked Plants"

Monet's Passion - 20th Anniversary Edition - A book review and giveaway

Book giveaway winner!

Book Giveaway - The Gardener's Color Palette

Give-away! EcoSmart offers a natural bug killer

Flora Mirabilis - A book review and giveaway

The winner is...

Hummingbird Feeder Giveaway