Recent Comments

• Re: Out With The Boring!

  Sonya, what a great start you’ve made in your transformation from essentially a monoculture front walk to one with texture and form. It is always exciting to start a new garden, and should be fun to work on this new house project. Beautiful. Keep us up to date with your progress.

  Posted: 12:35 pm on January 23rd 2018

• Re: Spice Up Your Shade

  Good morning, Lilian. Great photos. I really like the Melittis. I have never seen it before. The flowers look a bit like orchids. The leaves look like it is in the mint family. Is it very vigorous? how moist does the soil need to be to grow? I just looked it up, and saw the common name is Bastard Balm. I wonder what the story is behind that name. Great post.

  Posted: 04:26 am on January 24th 2018

• Re: Foliage First

  Good morning, Bob and MaryAnn. Your shady path looks like a lovely retreat from the heat of the summer. It is so nice to look at green right now, as I am already wanting winter to end. Love the explosion of color on the porch it is wonderful how many great coleus are now available. I like the last picture with the Miscanthus in the foreground and the Muhly grass backlit behind it. Thanks for sharing.

  Posted: 12:38 pm on January 29th 2018

• Re: A Rainbow Brought to Earth

  Thank you, Steve, for responding to the group. I understand that a print article needs to limit the number of photos, but I disagree that a daily email blog should have that limit. To tell the story well, it is nice to have overview photos, as well as closeups of plants. It is hard to do that with 5 pictures or less. Remember, on GPOD, the PHOTOS are the story, while in a FG article, the photos enhance the story (written). Thanks for listening.

  Posted: 05:01 am on January 27th 2018

• Re: A Rainbow Brought to Earth

  You go girl, Michaele. Maybe we create a march on Knoxville. It is so sad HGTV dropped gardening from their programming.

  Posted: 04:43 am on January 27th 2018

• Re: A Rainbow Brought to Earth

  Susan, you have brought by fond memories for me of Gardener's Diary. I loved that show so much, and so wish there was a way to see it again. You brought a smile to my face just thinking about it.

  Posted: 04:40 am on January 27th 2018

• Re: Out With The Boring!

  Thanks, Sonya. Flattery will get you everywhere.

  Posted: 04:33 am on January 24th 2018

• Re: A Garden of Sculptures

  Thanks, Cheryl. My heart pounds and I get so excited when I see the hellebores starting to bloom. Gets me through the rest of winter.

  Posted: 04:31 am on January 24th 2018

• Re: Out With The Boring!

  Crazy day for me, Frank. I just took a quick peek. Wow. Won’t have time to really look at your pictures until 10pm tonight.

  Posted: 12:38 pm on January 23rd 2018

• Re: A Garden of Sculptures

  Here is my contribution to the white pictures. Not a flower, but snow on Hydrangea quercifolia 'Little Honey'. I love the peeling bark lit by the warm glow of the low lying sun. https://s3.amazonaws.com/finegardening.s3.tauntoncloud.com/app/uploads/2018/01/31011707/8121b87a784305c38810163a0f32ca3910ec431cf0283e0b29151f914df48f68.jpg

  Posted: 04:19 am on January 22nd 2018