The Precocious Peony’s Premiere Performance
My ‘precocious’ — courtesy of spending the winter in an unheated garage — teenage tree peony ‘Kamata-fuji’ has spent the …
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A Very Precocious Peony!
Less than three weeks ago I had a big ‘whew’ moment upon discovering that the baby tree peonies and their …
The Great Garden Renovation (TGGR) Progress Report for February 2018
The Great Garden Renovation, hereinafter referred to as TGGR (pronounced “tigger”) resumed in earnest late last month as winter appeared …
The (Peony) Kids Are Alright…but What’s Up With Their Big Sister?
Apologies to The Who for fudging their title, but there were some anxious days recently for the baby tree peonies. …
Fungi Wars: The Phantom (Mulch) Menace
The old saw about the price of freedom being eternal vigilance was recently proved again, this time quite close to …
Doomsday for the Killer Viburnum
The official first step in the Great Garden Renovation (after the Massacre of the Not-So-Innocents, that is) was to deliver …
The Temporary Garden Gets a Promotion
Well, after 3+ years of grousing about the Money Pit and its attendant Temporary Garden, whilst looking at one disappointing …
An Ounce of Prevention, and a Garden Mini-Drama
Last week I noticed that my baby tree peonies were coming close to nudging the top third of my horizontal …
