The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Bibs On!
A few months back I did a really extensive post about My Big Perennial Bed with a listing and description of pretty much every plant in the bed. Now I’d like to show off the plants in the bed month by month as they bloom or just look really nice.
In beds like the one you see above I stick my cuttings about one cutting per square inch. I really put them as close together as 3/4″ of an inch, but the rows are about 1-1/2″ apart. That’s about one cutting per square inch. That’s 144 cuttings in a square foot. If you sell those… Click here to read more…
We stick our softwood cuttings in June in a bed of sand outdoors. In a matter of weeks they are fully rooted Using this Plant Propagation System. We can pull them from the bed and pot them in the summer but I don’t unless I absolutely need them because summer potting can be stressful for… Click here to read more…
At The Nursery I have this big bed that is really just a big pile of sand and gravel that I dug out to make a container area. Rather than haul the material away I just gave it some contour and landscaped it. Over the years I’ve had all kinds of really interesting plants in… Click here to read more…
Later this month, September 2022, I have invited our members to my place for an event that we call The Backyard Growers Shindig. We’ve been doing this for so long, gathering together once a year to meet new members and catch up with old members. It truly is an amazing event. Nothing fancy, just a… Click here to read more…
You can see more of the donkeys here. And more silly donkey stuff here. Questions, comments, mean things to say? Post them below and I will respond. Until then, by any and all means stay inspired!
Wow! I planted four of these ‘Rockin Raspberry’ Bee Balm in the perennial garden at the nursery last summer and look at them now. They are in bloom right now, end of June here in northern, Ohio and every person that sees them asks about them. This beauty grows to about 16″ to 20″ tall,… Click here to read more…
This beautiful Bee Balm is part of the ‘Sugar Buzz’ series. I planted these in my perennial bed last summer and this year they are beautiful and blooming like crazy! They grow from 16″ to 24″ tall, are hardy from zone 4 through zone 8. They love full sun but will do well in partial… Click here to read more…
‘Blue Angel’hosta is by far one of my favorite blue hostas. A big hosta like this in a perennial bed covers a lot of area and that keeps a ton of weeds at bay! These giant heart shaped leaves are very slug resistant. We have this plant in full sun. With just a bit of… Click here to read more…
