No Gravel or Stuffers Needed In Planters? It’s A Myth
Gravel in the bottom of your container? There are a lot of things that we have always done because our Mothers and Grandmothers did it that way, and they always had success, so…
Gravel in the bottom of your container? There are a lot of things that we have always done because our Mothers and Grandmothers did it that way, and they always had success, so…
Elephant Bush or Elephant Food? Yes, it sure is. Portulacaria afra is a perennial succulent native to South Africa but it is a great plant for outdoors and indoors over winter here in…
Almost Winter – a beautiful season for my succulents and sedum. These plants are glowing like jewels in hypertufa. The stress of the cold weather brings out all the colors in sedum, so…
Where do you keep your outdoor hardy hypertufa troughs and bowls? In the past, I have always just left them sitting where they had been all summer. ( Of course, I am always…
Yes, such colorful sedums. In the late summer and fall, when the cooler weather begins here in Ohio, the sedum takes on such wonderful colors. There are many that bloom during the late…
Campanula portenschlagiana is an alpine plant. Perfect! This is just the kind of plant I look for when I want something to plant in my hypertufa pots or cement planters. This type of…
What is a succulent’s true beauty? I believe that the secret to the appeal of succulents and sedum is the color transitions which occur constantly. With a succulent, it is always changing colors…
Good news! It’s spring now…officially. But the weather around here didn’t get the memo. It is supposed to be around 32ºF here today. But it is snowy and too windy. We are expecting…
I was wandering through the garden and checking over some of the hypertufa troughs I have made these last few years, You may recall some of these from a prior posts, but I…
It is cold in the autumn garden this Monday. The early morning walk with that cup of coffee calls for a jacket to be able to endure that cool air. I used to…
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