Category Archives: Summer

Sleeping Through The Summer

September 08, 2015

All summer long I’m thinking about my gardens outside: enjoying their beauty, weeding them, and thinking about what I can add to them next year. What I forget about are the winter forced bulbs that are on the shelf in our garage, where they are doing their thing: resting and rejuvenating for the upcoming fall and winter. I’m pretty sure I forget about them, as it’s not a pretty shelf: a shel...

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SUMMER FLOWER TIDBITS

August 03, 2015

I recently came across some notes I’ve been putting together with some interesting tidbits on summer flowers, and I thought I would start to share them with you today. If you have any interesting flower tidbits, I would love it if you would share it down below in the discussion.   1. Following the sun Shasta Daisies and Sunflowers are both heliotropic, which means they trac...

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