I always used to run when I would see Goldenrod, but now think it is a beautiful plant. The picture below was taken during a recent walk through a the New Jersey Botanical Gardens. It wasn’t being cultivated, just growing wild on the way to one of the woodland paths, just like it grows wild [...]
I have a few more pictures to share with you that I took earlier this month, a little less than two weeks ago. Last year I may have told you that I transplanted my rose bush, it was just a stick with one branch all summer after moving it, not happy at all, and only [...]
April came and went so quickly, but we enjoyed an EARLY spring season here. Usually it can be quite cool well into May, and I don’t do serious gardening until around the 3rd week of May, but this year, things have gotten way ahead of me! I’ve just let the things come up with little [...]
It’s easy to forget about a blog about gardening when all you see outside is snow, snow and more snow, but under that snow my perennials are sleeping and looking forward to coming alive again in only a couple months…and I can’t wait! We have lived here for going on 26 years now, and this [...]
Echinacea Purpurea plants, also known as cone flowers are actually something lacking in my garden. My mother has some beautiful plants that look just like the one pictured, the purple cone flower, known for the medicinal properties of enhancing the immune system. (I use Echinacea and Golden Seal often for different infections, and during season [...]
