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Linda Brazill
I'm an artist by training, a journalist by trade and a gardener by choice.
Interests: art, books, antiques, food and entertaining, design and decorative arts, interiors and gardens, textiles.
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BARBARA — It can be very hard to open her letter up, knowing how much bad news there is. "Speeding disaster" seems like an appropriate description.
Furious on the Fourth
I don't know why anyone in the U.S. expects women to celebrate the Fourth of July this year. Our government — via the Supreme Court — has just demonstrated that they do not consider women citizens with the full rights of men. Our independence has been dramatically curtailed and it's going to ge...
KRISTIN — Yes, the tour went very well. But I am still tired from such a busy, emotional June with my sister's memorial event, the tour and Mark had out-patient heart surgery to correct his A-fib. Feel like I could sleep for a week.
Wordless Wednesday
BARBARA H. — Light rain the morning of the tour so the garden looked lush. A very nice event.
IVOM
A week ago I grabbed the last of the candelabra primroses and the first Martagon lily to make a quick arrangement for the living room. Stems of Heuchera flowers and an Allium complete the group. Allium atropurpureum is new for me this year. The flower head is not fully round but more of a bowl...
CECI — Definitely an indoor plant here. I've actually purchased three other ones this spring — all currently in mixed pots. I am going to have to figure out where to put them once it gets cold but I couldn't resist.
IVOM
A week ago I grabbed the last of the candelabra primroses and the first Martagon lily to make a quick arrangement for the living room. Stems of Heuchera flowers and an Allium complete the group. Allium atropurpureum is new for me this year. The flower head is not fully round but more of a bowl...
SUSIE - All the bloggers I know online aren’t coming. It would have been fun to meet you all in person. Hot, sunny and windy weather here making it difficult to get much done in the garden. I always want everything to be perfect and I don’t think it’s going to be this time. Oh well.
GBBD: 6.15.2022
Despite being gone from the garden for the first ten days of the month, I didn't miss much. One Peony had come and gone as had the flowers on my various Brunnera. But my new Alliums are just opening and the Martagon lilies will follow shortly. I've been trying to take more wide shots that will h...
KRIS — I am pretty happy that I got it all in the ground. Now we just need consistent rain.
May bows out
i finished planting my last few plugs of Penn sedge (Carex pennsylvanicum) and a few Farmers Market purchases over the weekend. The weather was so nice that I kept walking around taking pictures of plantings that caught my eye. I love that this grouping is in a raised bed so I can enjoy everyth...
BARBARA — I wrote and spoke about gardens so much that I made sure I made id cards for all my plants. I hated it when someone hadn't a clue. Though lately I can't always remember the names and then I can't even look anything up. Aging brain.
May bows out
i finished planting my last few plugs of Penn sedge (Carex pennsylvanicum) and a few Farmers Market purchases over the weekend. The weather was so nice that I kept walking around taking pictures of plantings that caught my eye. I love that this grouping is in a raised bed so I can enjoy everyth...
KRISTIN — It wouldn't surprise me that Olbrich has one.
May bows out
i finished planting my last few plugs of Penn sedge (Carex pennsylvanicum) and a few Farmers Market purchases over the weekend. The weather was so nice that I kept walking around taking pictures of plantings that caught my eye. I love that this grouping is in a raised bed so I can enjoy everyth...
MONICA — It's taken a while to achieve some size, but suddenly it's amazing. You are right about feeling prehistoric.
Big guys getting bigger
A big garden needs some big foliage plants for contrast with delicate ferns and ground covers. A number of the ones I've planted are finally making their statement. Rodgersia 'Rotlaub' emerges a rich chocolate brown but quickly turns green. This plant is in its third location in my garden and is...
KRIS — I am pretty excited to have these plants really taking off. I like ferns and lots of delicate things so it really helps to have these big leaved contrasts. Also they're not Hostas which I think of as higher maintenance since I tend to cut the flowers off!
Big guys getting bigger
A big garden needs some big foliage plants for contrast with delicate ferns and ground covers. A number of the ones I've planted are finally making their statement. Rodgersia 'Rotlaub' emerges a rich chocolate brown but quickly turns green. This plant is in its third location in my garden and is...
BARBARA & KRIS — Since the bulbs have to go, I figure it's worth a try to save them. They were so good this year and most of them are fragrant.
Vases and vases
This spring seems to be rushing by faster than in recent years. Every time I look around something has burst into bloom and something else has disappeared. I've been cutting flowers and plopping them into vases like mad. The best way for me to enjoy the bounty of my garden at the moment is indoo...
ELIZABETH — Thanks for that lovely response. You are correct. We're not ready to go into that good night.
Danger, old gardener at work
Despite temps into the low 90°s last week, I worked in the garden three to five hours every morning because I have so many plants that I need to get into the ground. Saturday the weather changed to a perfect May day for gardening. I was thrilled and got right to it. I had just planted two shrubs...
KRISTIN — I hate computer problems that I don't understand, can't fix and are likely from the platform and not me. And yes, glad that lantern experience is just a good story. Freaked me out when I thought about it later. I moved all the small pieces out of the garden but it took two guys to set the column back up.
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ELIZABETH — Thanks for those kind words, especially as I found it hard to control things in such a tiny container. But it was fun to try to compliment the colors of the cups with the flowers.
GBBD: In a Vase on Sunday
A week of temps hitting 90°F or above had me in the garden cutting flowers for the house.They bloomed and faded so fast outdoors that this way I got to enjoy them for a little while longer. I love photographing floral bouquets on my tall Japanese display stand against the gold Japanese sc...
KRISTIN — I've had good luck with the F. meleagris in a vase. And the rabbits get mine so quickly that I'de rather cut them and chance it.
GBBD: In a Vase on Sunday
A week of temps hitting 90°F or above had me in the garden cutting flowers for the house.They bloomed and faded so fast outdoors that this way I got to enjoy them for a little while longer. I love photographing floral bouquets on my tall Japanese display stand against the gold Japanese sc...
KRIS — The heat has pushed things forward so fast that it is hard to actually see and enjoy what's happening in the garden before it's over.
GBBD: In a Vase on Sunday
A week of temps hitting 90°F or above had me in the garden cutting flowers for the house.They bloomed and faded so fast outdoors that this way I got to enjoy them for a little while longer. I love photographing floral bouquets on my tall Japanese display stand against the gold Japanese sc...
KATHY — I feel like my whole garden has popped up in the last few days. No time to enjoy any specific plant. And I could not plant special orders because it was too cold.We hit 90 or above every day but one in the last 5 days.
To top it all off, I tipped over an almost 6 foot stone lantern in the garden this morning on top of lilies and other bulbs that were all up a foot or more. We have to see if we can get a neighbor to help us set it back up. It comes apart in 5 pieces. I've worked around that lantern for 20 years and never had such a thing happen — especially not when I was counting on those flowers for the tour.
That was then. This is now.
Our weather continues to be frustrating. One nice sunny day and then it's back to cool, windy and gray. I looked at images from last spring after a stroll through the garden yesterday afternoon. It's not my imagination that the garden is behind last spring in bloom dates. 'Valentine' Bleeding H...
FRANK — I will move it tomorrow (which is now today) because most things still aren't up enough to plant the dozens of plants piling up on my worktable.
This and that in the garden
Our weather has been so up and down that I've got more and more plants waiting to get put into the ground. In the meantime, I've done a lot of waiting, walking around with a notepad, changing my mind about what goes where and waiting some more. Things are so behind in making their appearance tha...
SUSIE — Thanks, Susie. When the pomegranates are fully dry they are a very dark red and look rather different. But I still love them.
IOVM: Hellebores
I read a long article from the U.K. about how to use blooming Hellebores as cut flowers. After trying the tips, I decided that if I want a fresh Hellebore flower in a spring bouquet the best idea is to float it. The flower is facing up so you can see it and they last for days this way. I love t...
KRIS — I just sent some photos of leaf damage on my Boxwoods to the UW's Diagnostic Lab to see if it is winterburn, last year's drought or blight. More and more seems like there are questions in the garden related to climate change.
IOVM: Hellebores
I read a long article from the U.K. about how to use blooming Hellebores as cut flowers. After trying the tips, I decided that if I want a fresh Hellebore flower in a spring bouquet the best idea is to float it. The flower is facing up so you can see it and they last for days this way. I love t...
LOREE — It was from Edelweiss Perennials. We keep having a nice day or two and then yuk. I am planting on the nice days as I told all my shippers to send plants in late April or early May. Can't wait any longer to get things in the ground.
Crossing my fingers
Last weekend temps got up into the 80s followed by overnight lows hovering at frost levels. Day time temps have been chilly with mostly gray skies. We're supposed to hit 60°F. today and tomorrow and then drop back into the 50s for the next ten days. The good news is that the overnight lows are a...
CHRISTINE — That Pine Knot is swoon worthy. I checked their website this spring and couldn't find anything unusual. But they said to check back that they'd sold out a lot at their spring festival.
Hellebore season
Our weather has been so up and down for so many day that some of my Hellebores are fully up and blooming while others are barely pushing up buds. This is only a sampling of the crazy numbers of this plant I grow. In my Zone 5 climate, there is no other plant that rivals it for early arrival, flo...
BETH — I hope Im not tempting fate by planting my new arrivals.
Crossing my fingers
Last weekend temps got up into the 80s followed by overnight lows hovering at frost levels. Day time temps have been chilly with mostly gray skies. We're supposed to hit 60°F. today and tomorrow and then drop back into the 50s for the next ten days. The good news is that the overnight lows are a...
BETH — This weather seems to prove what I was afraid of: No winter etc. would mean it would arrive on the back end and we'd have a frustrating spring. The rain has been the one good thing.
Hellebore season
Our weather has been so up and down for so many day that some of my Hellebores are fully up and blooming while others are barely pushing up buds. This is only a sampling of the crazy numbers of this plant I grow. In my Zone 5 climate, there is no other plant that rivals it for early arrival, flo...
KRISTIN - I got the Pine Knot ones about 7 years ago and I’m not sure if the nursery is still in business. They had some unusual ones for sure.
Hellebore season
Our weather has been so up and down for so many day that some of my Hellebores are fully up and blooming while others are barely pushing up buds. This is only a sampling of the crazy numbers of this plant I grow. In my Zone 5 climate, there is no other plant that rivals it for early arrival, flo...
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