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Conserving the Autumn Garden: a southwest consideration

Golden leaves are beginning to cloak the upper slopes of the Rockies, and with the aspens turning so turns the season. As the British poet, Philip Larkin, would have it, ā€œAutumn has caught us in our summer wear.ā€ Just like itā€™s caught generations of gardeners before us. Turning to my treasured 240-year-old edition of the […]

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Last flower from a lost tribe!

If you were a greenhouse gardener one hundred and fifty years ago you could have been growing twenty seven different species of the beautiful Spider flower. Listed in Paxtonā€™s Botanical Dictionary as Cleome with another eight registered under the apparently near synonymous Gynandropsis there were three dozen or more available. Seventy five years ago Roy […]

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Talking tomatoes ā€“ and moreā€¦

Early in the month, especially if it is warm and sunny, sow trays, pots or old growing bags with ā€˜cut and come again cropsā€™ to harvest through autumn and into winter, think land cress, oriental salads, like pak choi, mizuna and mibuna greens plus lettuce, lambā€™s lettuce, chicory and radish. You can also use whatā€™s […]

Grow Fabulous Roses in Containersā€”Anne Reeves Shares her Secrets

ā€œRoses donā€™t like to live in pots. They all want their feet in the ground.ā€ I thought that old rose adage was trueā€”until I met author, photographer, and blogger, Anne Reeves. Her home garden in the Seattle area is overflowing with roses in containers. And many have been thriving for years in their potsā€”so I […]