For attracting hummingbirds, the best plants to grow in your yard are those that produce flowers and fruit. Columbine If you’re looking for the perfect plant for hummingbirds, look no further than the native columbine. Native to the eastern United States, this flowering perennial is a popular choice. The flowers of the native columbine are […]
Year number two in my new gardening hobby brings me new opportunities to learn from the past and discover new ways to improve my results. Back fence garden plot. This project was mostly a bust and I’ll need to take a different approach this year. Several of the bulbs that I planted early last year […]
I had a bare spot alongside my back porch that I had wanted to plant a shrub of some kind for a long time. In the spirit of continuing my living memorial to Trixie, I dug out the spot and planted a Little Quick Fire Hydrangea. I didn’t want a really large plant here that […]
After catching the gardening bug last fall, I’ve been anxiously waiting for Spring to arrive so I could continue growing in my new hobby. Of course I’m excited to see how the Azaleas and Hydrangeas I planted last fall do in their first year. I bought quite a few terracotta pots in various sizes at […]
I had another bare spot alongside my back porch and I wanted to plant a shrub of some kind. In the spirit of continuing my living memorial to Trixie, I dug out the spot to plant a Incrediball Blush Smooth Hydrangea. I didn’t want a really large plant here that grew to a height that […]
Being new to gardening in 2021, there was much to learn about plants and how to grow them. I did quite a bit of research on the web, watching lots of YouTube videos and decided my shrub honoring Trixie (and burying her ash remains below) was to be an Azalea. Actually, it was my sister […]