Garden Biodiversity
I’ve just finished reading and absorbing one of the most fascinating research reports in recent memory. It has to do with biodiversity – how different species all manage (or not) to live together in an environment.
Traditionally, we’ve thought that an environment has a certain carrying capacity (the ability to support life) and all species [...]
Canada versus the United States
As the Olympics wind down, I think it may be interesting to point out to my US readers the essential difference between our two countries. It’s not that we like hockey and you adore baseball and football. It’s not that you’re somewhere around 300 million people and we’re about 30 million. It’s [...]
Slow Gardening
One of the most amazing developments over the past few years has been the slow-food movement. The notion that the slowing down, eating real food, in relaxed, convivial environments is important in our lives. I love it.
Mayo and I have talked at length about this slowing down, this relaxing-into lifestyle and that’s an [...]
Amaryllis ‘Double Record’
February 13, 2010 by Doug
Filed under Bulbs, Containers, Featured
Image courtesy International Flower Bulb Centre
Hippeastrum ‘Double Record’ is one of those wonderful amaryllis bulbs we all love to see and grow. This particular plant was the 2006 French Potted Plant of the Year.
You can see how to get them to rebloom right here.
I just thought you might like a hit of color this [...]
Perennial Plant of the Year: Baptisia australis
February 10, 2010 by Doug
Filed under Featured, Perennials
Perennial Plant of the YearT: Baptisia australis has always been one of my favorite perennials. One of the taller violet-blue flowers you can have for your early summer garden. This means of course you can put it to the middle-back of the border where little else is flowering (except iris) at this [...]
Random Thoughts on a Sunday Morning
Here are a few random thoughts from my week.
I’ve been reading Anderson’s “Free” yesterday and today and am intrigued with the question of what a writer/creative offers to people when the cost of finding content is pretty close to zero. I’m working on that issue now (it’s probably in the experiential part of the [...]
Men and Women on Flower Color
Yeah, right. So…
In a study published in Published in HortScience 45: 78-82 (2010) © 2010 American Society for Horticultural Science
by Chengyan Yue and Bridget K. Behe
You can see this summary here.
Men and women prefer different flower colors. Yeah, anybody in the nursery industry can tell you that but here are a few lines [...]
