Category Archives: Uncategorized

Whizz-bang Ideas for Garden Clean-up, a Self-Help Manual

Posted on December 4, 2017 by aheronsgarden

You, too, Can Have That Sleek Magazine-Garden Look in Your Garden Visitors are coming and they like to garden and they want to see what new plants are growing in your garden. You haven’t been paying much attention lately, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden Humor, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

New York Frolics: A New Series

Posted on November 20, 2017 by aheronsgarden

Gardens and Green Spaces in New York City Every so often we invade New York City. We crash at my sister’s apartment. (She owns the refrigerator you might have read about in a previous post. Or, you can pick up … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

September Frolic in a Southern Garden

Posted on September 15, 2017 by aheronsgarden

It’s playtime in our garden in September. Happy recess between hot and cold seasons. Plants are putting a finish on blooms and berries. Bees and butterflies follow the sun, attend progressive end-of-the-season nectar parties. Birds buzz, chirp, chip, while they … Continue reading →

Posted in fall bloom, garden maintenance, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

My Favorite Summer Garden

Posted on August 25, 2017 by aheronsgarden

By the time August arrives here in the south the fresh-faced blooms of early summer are gone. Hydrangea blossoms begin to look like old lace and daylily scapes turn to disposable, dried-up stalks (unless a gardener refuses to deprive dragonflies … Continue reading →

Posted in summer bloom, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

Daylily Amnesia

Posted on July 1, 2017 by aheronsgarden

Wasn’t the daylily bloom spectacular this spring? Daylilies danced all over the garden. Some we greeted joyfully as old friends come back for a visit. Some we welcomed as prodigals gone awol for a time. Others were, what can I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | 2 Comments

Plight of a Pickle Pail

Posted on May 9, 2017 by aheronsgarden

I’m just a lowly pickle pail done-in Ain’t never had no steady kissin’ kin I toil so hard In your weedy yard Oh what I’d give for a swig of gin. Today you see a pickle pail hard workin’ But … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

A Gardener’s Weather

Posted on April 26, 2017 by aheronsgarden

It’s the middle of March and they are bickering in the heavens again. Move out, you Old Goat, you’re done, finished. Old goat, eh! I’ll show you. Want a blast of wind chill? And some crusty barbs of ice? You—you—you … Continue reading →

Posted in Native Plants, spring, spring bloom, Spring shrubs, Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

A Special Note for Camellia Lovers

Posted on April 2, 2017 by aheronsgarden

We Live in a Land Where Camellia is King Only camellia lovers can understand how a Gang of Eight could capture our hearts so completely that we created a special place for them in our garden twenty-five years ago. Then, … Continue reading →

Posted in camellias, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

The Whiny Gardener

Posted on March 10, 2017 by aheronsgarden

Caution: Viewer discretion advised. Pictures are not pretty. Every year it’s the same. I spend the month of February whining. Plants should be up and coming on February 1st. We’re in the south. It’s 40 degrees today! Spring should be … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden Humor, garden maintenance, Uncategorized, weeds | Tagged , | 4 Comments

The Weather Outside Can Be Frightful

Posted on January 24, 2017 by aheronsgarden

January’s winter storm was a piker compared with past whoppers. Barely two inches of snow fell, but a long winter’s night of sleet managed to pull it all together and put on a good show. Cold weather and slick roads … Continue reading →

Posted in Blizzard, ice storm, snow storm, Uncategorized, Winter, Winter Gardens | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments