Hardy Rhododendrons
January 30, 2008 by Doug
Filed under Miscellaneous
Several things this week. The first is that the cold of this past week isn’t going to hurt perennials and bulbs. They’re dormant and underground now, covered by a good bit of snow. So you can relax on that score. The second thing to understand is that broadleaf plants such as Rhododendrons are not going [...]
Even Birds Have It Tough
January 26, 2008 by Doug
Filed under Miscellaneous
Even Birds Have it Tough It turns out that researchers out in Colorado found that female songbirds pick their mates based on a variety of characteristics. Song, feather coloring and placement and possibly even beak size. (no comments on “size matters” please) But rather than stay the same from year to year, the females changed [...]
Confessions of a Garden Reader
OK, I read a ton of stuff every day. In fact, I read about 75 blogs almost every day (that’s down from 100 a month or so ago) and it is only the determined and high quality blogs that stay in my reader (or the so-different that there is no alternative) And I said at [...]
Updated Free Perennial Ebook
January 24, 2008 by Doug
Filed under Perennials
I have a free ebook on the Perennial Plants of the Year and I’ve just finished updating it. If you want a free copy, simply click here to go and download it. Do let me know what you think about it.
Garden Benches
I rather like garden benches and all my gardens have had places to sit. As regular readers will know, I believe if there isn’t a bench or seat in the garden the only time you’ll go in there is if you want to work. In any case, here’s a video featuring some fine garden benches [...]
Garden Forum ???
January 21, 2008 by Doug
Filed under Miscellaneous
It has been suggested to me more than once that I should start a Garden Forum. I’m open to doing this if there’s enough interest. But I don’t want to waste my time or yours if there’s not enough interest in having one or helping out. There are few things worse than having a forum [...]
Youtube channel
I’m not sure there’s anybody on the Net who hasn’t heard of youtube.com I’ve been using them to host some of my videos and have just finished creating Doug’s Youtube Channel What I’d like to ask you to do is take a few minutes, check out a video (or three) and rate them for me. [...]
