Barbie’s Garden
Country living is the best! Being a true spirit of the earth, my garden is all about vegetables and fruit trees and herbs and chickens roaming free. I was keen to really start gardening when we moved to Philadelphia in 2005, but not your typical suburban-type garden – sterile and bug-free! I wanted an edible garden. Read more about this garden by following blog posts here … Barbie’s Garden
Christine’s Garden
Dominated by large trees on a medium sized property, my garden is very shaded. With no “full sun” areas I have to plant shade and partial shade loving plants. I love shrubs and flowers including Camellias and Azaleas but Roses and Irises are my favourite and getting these to thrive is a challenge … Read more about this garden by following blog posts here … Christine’s Garden
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Latest Posts
May 16 2012
Foliage Follow-up – What happened?
It’s the 16th day of the month which means its time to join Pam at Diggings for Foliage Follow Up, the monthly gardening meme where garden bloggers showcase the beauty of foliage in their gardens. This month I’m looking for advice … “Variegation is the appearance of differently coloured zones in the leaves, and sometimes the stems, of plants. This may be due to a number of causes. Some variegation [...]
May 14 2012
It’s almost Winter in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
Brrr … Winter is officially two weeks away but it’s feeling decidedly cold and ‘wintry’ already. There’s not really much blooming in our gardens right now but a little planning means we have a few pretty blooms so that we can still take part in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – this being our 15th time! Thank you for joining us for our late Autumn show of whats flowering in our [...]
Seed collection development
The plan for this month of May is to get all my seeds planted for [...]
Camellia bed update
I don’t really know why I call this ‘The Camellia Bed”, I have far more [...]
Meadow brief
The Flowering Meadow is coming on nicely and all I have done in the last [...]
Garden friends spotted in my garden
I love walking through my garden, but when I stop and bend down, I see [...]
Miscanthus probe
Well, Alan – this post has finally been uploaded. You have been patiently asking me [...]
Lovely Camellias
Flowers are the poetry of earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven ~ Unknown [...]