Recent content by SPedigrees

These firefly petunias sound really cool. I may try some next year, and will keep in mind that they do not like hot full sun. Could they be grown indoors as house plants I wonder? Afternoon sun diffused through window glass might be more to their liking. Could they grow indoors in winter?

They do smell wonderful!

I was thinking that some element in my soil perhaps differs from the soil that they were grown in, and a different pH makes a lot of sense. Perhaps they simply have to adjust to that new pH and it takes time. The testing method you suggest sounds like it could prove this, but honestly I'm too...

My heritage tomatoes are getting started. These are the riesentraube variety, but I also have a few candyland mini currant tomato plants coming up from saved seeds. Somehow watching plants grow from seed to blossoms to fruit never gets old!

This is the second time I've witnessed this phenomenon, and it has me wondering what factors cause a daylily to produce blooms of a color different from the advertised photo on a tag when first planted, and then over the course of a few years, gravitate to the color it is supposed to be. The...

My tomatoes are loving the sunny weather we've *finally* been enjoying. The bee hive shaped thingie above them is a solar lantern, given to me by the same relative who gifted me with the indoor grow-kit nursery where these tomatoes were "born." When the tomato plants grow high enough to...

The critters are helping you garden!

I have the same "faithful helpers" as you, Phaedra, and vast areas that need to be tamed! It has rained so much here that overgrowth has taken over. Your pathway looks very neat and trimmed.

Wow, that's quite the harvest!

Welcome from the Green Mountain state!

I started my plants late this year, but that was fortuitous. If I'd started them earlier when I usual do, I'd be in your situation now. Cold rain has been the rule here this month and last month.

Nancy is very pretty!

Mabel gets along with all other dogs (scared of all humans except me, but loves all members of her own species) and Bella and Saffy have lived together their whole lives, so the pack has integrated well. I like that even though they've lost their original owner, Bella and Sapphire get to stay...

I have a pack again! Mabel is no longer an only dog. Some form of craziness took over and I added these two (from a rescue I'd adopted from before). They are Bella on the left, and Sapphire (Saffy) on the right, both aged 15. Their owner died and left them homeless, but I'm still kicking (more...

Oh don't I know it!