February 19 , 2009
From the producer: 17 January 2025
Last weekend , Sam helped me in the garden . Thankfully , he before long wear out , and flopped in the cat cove catnip .
Just beyond , the first give starflowers ( Ipheion uniflorum ) show up .
Chester the cocker spaniel stays far by on uprise pruning day , since his first spring in residence . Eager to “ help , ” he fly the coop through the pile , where a briary cutting snagged in his curly pelt . But I was n’t alone this time as I trim and fertilise . When I ascertain these two , I pulled off my baseball mitt and get the camera for the early birds .
Mutabilis
Isabella Sprunt
The mountain laurels are n’t going to go nuts this year , but the one in the crape bottom wins first prize for first flower . A butterfly , I think a sulfur , jumped in for a drink .
Here ’s an nameless beauty , if anyone knows what it is . Its farewell see like blowball .
I turn out back almost everything , except the bicolor salvia ( Salvia sinaloensis ) , the genus Abutilon , since they ’re full of buds , and the shrimp works . I ’ll do those in a few weeks along with other speck - ups . With just the chip of rain we ’ve gotten , the industrial plant I dress in January are fluffing out like half-baked .
Here ’s a bonus , two mythological plants from friend and fellow gardener Tom Poth .
Agarita in spring flush
Acacia rigidula
This week on CTG , Tom and designerDylan Robertsonlook at the garden ’s big icon . Sometimes that ’s the hardest matter to tackle , but his ideas and doctrine open a new door to consider our garden . Like Julie Moir Messervy’sThe Inward Garden , Dylan ’s construct are one that can be translated to the DIY on a budget .
Until next week , Linda
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