Great band name: Moonbeam Tickseed and the Rhythm Aces. Nope. It’s Coreopsis verticillata. We have some in the canoe garden. The seeds are apparently sterile but the plants can be divided after a couple years if they last. Had I researched instead of buying on… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose takes us to the world of the melodica. Of course the melodica goes goes great with a uke…Tequila! Fantastico indeed… Not sure what to say about this next number… And one more for all the melodica freaks out there, here’s Augustus Pablo
Settling into this book was tough for me. The main character, Henry Lightcap, presents as a self-indulgent anarchist crank, gun-toting and sexist and not very likable. His wife packs him in, leaving him broke. He shoots his fridge full of holes, and along with his… Read More
I posted a short while ago about the canoe garden not being complete until we planted ornamental cabbage in the bow and stern. Well, Tuffy P just came home and did just that.
We haven’t messed with ornamental grasses much in the past, but this year, we’re establishing a new garden that is mostly made up of them. Hakonechloa macra “Aureola” This grass forms a low mound of stems that arch gracefully in cascading layers. This is a… Read More
Hostas do well here. I’ve previously posted photos of the phenomenal giant lime green hostas we now have in three places in the garden (and we’re going to split one or perhaps two of them again later this summer). Gradually, I’d like to expand the… Read More
Clematis heracleifolia “Cassandra” is a shrubby, easy to grow clematis – not a climber. It can bloom through the summer and into fall, and it is apparently very fragrant in bloom. We bought one of these (in bud) at Lost Horizons and planted it in… Read More
This year we’ve created a few new gardens and expanded existing ones and we’ve added quite a lot of new plants. Although I’ve been gardening for a long time, my plant knowledge is more basic than I’d like it to be, and sometimes I find… Read More
Pee Wee King was born Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski in 1914 and lived until 2000. He was Polish-American from Milwaukee Wisconsin and he is best known as the co-writer of the Tennessee Waltz. His co-writer on that tune was Redd Steward. They wrote the tune… Read More
As you walk up the path to the house, you’re greeted by this little garden, and then the green bench, which faces the stairs up to the front door. This garden is really happy this year!
27th Street 