By joenesgarden, 1 month and 26 days ago

Cut Daffodils Don’t Play Well with Other Flowers

I love filling my living spaces with vases of fresh-cut daffodils. They cheer up the darkest mood and warm the chilliest room.  But I learned that cut daffodils (narcissus is their botanical name) don't play well with other cut flowers in the same vase.

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By joenesgarden, 2 months and 8 days ago

March 2012 Blooms in Connecticut

What a glorious few days … warm temperatures, strong sunshine, and blooms popping out all over. Time for spring bulbs to shine if they can escape the creatures so active in my Connecticut gardens.

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By joenesgarden, 4 months and 17 days ago

A tad early for narcissi in Connecticut

A quick stroll around my Connecticut gardens brought this surprize.

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By joenesgarden, 4 months and 22 days ago

Re-GOOPs: a review of 2011’s gardening-oops

Welcome to January 1, 2012. The first of each month is confessional time. Time to fess up to a gardening blunder, or gardening oops. GOOPs for short. I share one of my gardening mis-steps and hope you'll do the same.

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By joenesgarden, 10 months and 2 days ago

Onion & garlic braids

Do you think early New England settlers braided onions as a means to store them after harvest? I wondered this when faced with the trays of onion and garlic bulbs harvested a couple of days previously and set on a covered porch to dry.

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