Browsing category: My Country Gardens

Our Traveling Orange Day Lilies

There is a long, wide row of orange day lilies growing against the sage green picket fence that borders one side of our front lawn.

Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis)

Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) likes deeply-dug soil that is rich and full of compost. It grows best for me in shade or part shade and in somewhat moist soil. Lily of the Valley is an herbaceous perennial… the rhizomes spread underground and form colonies.

What Does Bee Balm Look Like in the Spring?

Reader question… “It is spring in New England and I am cleaning my gardens getting ready for everything to ‘pop’ up. I planted Bee Balm last year and loved it next to my tall Phlox. Everything is coming up nicely but I can’t tell if the Bee Balm is coming back up…”

Growing & Harvesting Garlic

We still have several feet of snow on the ground here in most places, but I’m thrilled to report that there are also a few patches of bare ground just starting to show.

Primroses Blooming In The Snow

All the trees are bare… we’ve had several hard freezes and even some snow, and all the vegetation is wilted and dead. It looks pretty bleak out there. EXCEPT (of course)… the primroses.

Still Loving My Hollyhocks

I grow the single variety hollyhocks because I used to have problems with the plants living through our sometimes forty below zero winter temperatures.