Alien Squash have landed in my Garden

I am always looking for different and interesting new vegetables to grow in my garden.  So I decided to try this new squash I came across this year.  The squash is actually called “Flying Saucer Summer Squash (F1 Hybrid)”.  It is a compact bush variety with intense color patterns.  You can either wait until the [...]

Visitor to my Garden: Friend or Foe?

The other day while making my daily rounds throughout my garden, I noticed a bug on one of my Phlox that I did not recognize.  Immediately I thought what damage is it causing?  I did not observe any damage to the leaves, but I thought I better find out the name of this strange bug.
My favorite [...]

Time for Tulips

We had a blast of cold winds, snow and freezing temperatures a few weeks ago that raked havoc on my massive blooms of daffodils.  Lucky for me the weather is more spring like now and the tulips are just goregous.  One of my particular favorite is “Golden Charm Tulip”
The reason I like it so much [...]

New Addition to the Garden

Recently Planted

How I hope it looks in the future.
My garden family has a new member as of March 21, 2009.  I have been contemplating on a small shade tree to give my azaleas and rhododendron some more shade.   I finally decided on a Tatarian Maple, Acer tataricum, that met my requirements of: deciduous tree, medium [...]

Faces of Spring in My Garden

Which season do you like out of Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter?  Spring is my favorite of all the four.  Each season has its on attributes, but Spring I feel stands above the rest.  After a long winter nap the earth begins its awakening with small crocus popping their head up through the cold earth [...]

Visitors to my Garden

A lot of the other gardeners in my area that I talk with always mention the different animals that visit their garden.  Some are welcome visitors like birds and butterflies.  There are also the unwanted visitors like the deer, voles and rabbits.  Those type of visitors I can do without in my garden and luckily [...]

Spring Right Around the Corner

Spring must be right around the corner according to my garden.  I spotted my first crocus of the year in my garden today which sent my adrenalin to run.  I know it is still February, but the warmer temperatures have started my spring flowers to start to poke their tips up through the soil.  It [...]

What is an Earthbox?

Yesterday I had a friend ask me what was that container that you grew those bell peppers in last summer.  I replied an Earthbox.  He said what is an Earthbox?  So I thought that would be a great topic to write about, since gardening season is right around the corner.
For years gardeners have been growing [...]

Fine Addition to Your Garden

Thinking about what I was going to grow in the vegetable garden this year got me to thinking about one of my favorite vegetables.  This delectable vegetable which my family and I relish so much is Kolhrabi (German Turnip).  I found from talking to other gardeners that kolhrabi is not that well known or enjoyed.  [...]

Keeping Cats out of your Garden Beds

Three Leaf Sumac

 
It is a wonderful day here in Colorado so I thought I would see what I could do in my garden.  I found the ideal thing to do today.  I remembered last winter when we received a  lot of wet snow it made the branches on my Three Leaf Sumac really bend over.  [...]