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Showing posts with label native woodland wildflowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label native woodland wildflowers. Show all posts
Saturday, 18 April 2015
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
creating a new garden, Golden ragwort, native woodland wildflowers, natural gardening, woodland restoration
Creating a new space and garden
Consolidating to a smaller house is an "interesting" process. We're going to good space.We've enjoyed it as a weekend and summer home, so we've gradually been changing things to suit it better to be our new space as home. (It was built by an architect as his own eco-friendly house, so it...
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Native woodland gardens
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It was nice this morning to share thoughts about creating native woodland gardens with an OLLI class (check out OLLI programs if you're in the US -- a great lifelong learning initiative). It's been a lovely journey to transform lawn to woodland habitat over the last two decades, and we now...
Saturday, 22 March 2014
Bloodroot is in flower!
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It's such a joy to see the bright white flowers of bloodroot after a long winter. It's one of our early spring flowering natives, along with hepatica and trout lily.It's done well in our emerging woodland garden, too.clumps of bloodroot along the front pathAfter slowly amending the soil with mulch...
Sunday, 31 March 2013
First native spring wildflowers, native woodland wildflowers, natural gardening, Pigeon Mountain, spring wildflowers, The Pocket, wildflowers
Spring woodland wildflowers
A second visit to a botanical wonderland this weekend ("The Pocket" on Pigeon Mountain, GA) -- along the Shirley Miller Wildflower Trail found numerous treasures in flower. The Pocket is a rich cove forest (so pH levels are nearly neutral), supporting a rich array of wildflowers. Virginia...