This year I am pruning sweet autumn clematis right after it finishes blooming. Decision made. When do you prune yours? For myself, I have almost always pruned in late winter or early spring when I first see green growth start on the brown and dead-looking branches. But I have decided to go rogue and this…
Floriography – the Language of Flower Meanings Flowers have always had a symbolic meaning and we still connect some of those old ideas with flowers in the modern age. It goes back to very old times in Japan, a tradition called Hanakotoba which is a Japanese word for associating flowers with various meanings and gestures…
The is my last attempt at saving the Rotted Jade Plant. My daughter and I had discovered stem rot in it several weeks ago after we had done a pruning of the Jade Plant. (See My Video: Stem Rot in Jade Plant – Can We Rescue It? ) We concluded at the time we found…
Its name is Strobilanthes dyeriana “Persian Shield” and it is such a stunning color in your garden or containers. Be ready with that name because you will be asked time and time again. This beautiful plant that I have on my front porch in matching urns has grown so well this year. It is partly…
Along about this time of the year in Ohio, I start thinking about how to kill fungus gnats in these plants that I have summered outside. Which will be allowed to come back inside for the winter? Visions of swarming gnats come to mind and I start thinking about how to kill fungus gnats in…
It’s Monday again and here in Ohio and it’s hot. Is it seriously this far gone toward fall? I want summer for a little while longer…no, I need it to be a lot longer. Around here, school starts in a few weeks , and my little grandson is so looking forward to it being online!…
Earlier this summer, we decided to go ahead and hang our Electric mosquito zapper or basically an electric bug zapper out on the back deck. I wasn’t sure just how I would feel about this Electronic Killer, but I didn’t want to have a lot of mosquitos out back when we are on the deck….
I have a hoya carnosa houseplant that I have had since the spring of 2019 and I have been anxiously awaiting a bloom. I wrote about it on a post a while back but really didn’t have too much hope. But she has astounded me with a BLOOM! But when should I expect a hoya…
Weeds are unwelcome! I always hate to go out into the garden and see that the weeds are plotting another takeover. I can work for hours pulling all the weeds and unwanted sprouts and then spread mulch, but it seems that no time passes and they are back. Even though weeds are very minimal in…
Thanks to one of my viewers/subscribers “Yeats” on YouTube, where all my videos are hosted on Kim’s Gardens, I found a great question to answer here on the blog. (Of course, I will make a video too because that’s what I like to do!) Most of the time, I like to buy the premixed soil…