Latest Blog Posts for Jean's Garden

• The Side Slope: Mission Accomplished
  on Sep 1, 2016 in front garden Garden garden design garden projects flower beds front garden project
  My big garden project for this summer has been to turn the weedy slope that runs along the side of my driveway into a mixed planting of perennials and shrubs. This is a large area (almost 450 square feet) and it consists mostly of backfilled soil fro...
• Learning About Maine’s Native Plants
  on Aug 24, 2016 in garden education garden science plants Certificate in Native Plants and Ecological Horticulture Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens goldenrod Maine native plants Melissa Cullina Solidago
  For three days in mid-August, I drove out to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens each morning for a course called “Introduction to Maine’s Native Flora.” The course was part of my certificate program in Native Plants and Ecological Horticulture...
• The Season of Summer Phlox: GBBD, August 2016
  on Aug 16, 2016 in garden problems GBBD plants seasons cleome cosmos daylilies Delosperma Echinacea purpurea gardening in drought Hemerocallis ice plant lavender phlox sedum
  August is a month when the garden can begin to look tired and bedraggled. That is especially true this year, when our drought conditions mean that foliage that would normally be green is shriveled and browning, some plants are splayed open at the cen...
• Cherry Tree Under Stress: Tree Following, August 2016
  on Aug 12, 2016 in plants trees weather gardening in drought Prunus pensylvanica
  My part of Maine is officially in a “moderate drought;” it has been many weeks since we had any significant (1” or more) rainfall. I imagine that some of my garden blogging friends in the west would scoff at the idea of this as a drought, but I...
• The Entrance Garden: Lessons from the First Year
  on Aug 2, 2016 in front garden garden problems plants annuals cleome cosmos daylilies flower beds garden design Hemerocallis
  As I continue to slog away on year two of my front garden project, I thought it would be a good time to look at the results of year one’s efforts, particularly the two flower beds that flank the walkway from the front entrance of my house to the pa...
• Daylilies, Daylilies
  on Jul 28, 2016 in favorite gardens favorite nurseries Garden plants seasons daylilies Donna Primozich garden design Grenier Gardens Hemerocallis
  Those who have been following this blog for any length of time will know that one of my favorite flowering perennials is the daylily (Hemerocallis). I’m not usually a big plant collector, but I make an exception for daylilies and love to add new va...
• This Is For You, Mom
  on Jul 23, 2016 in front garden memoirs personal reflections plants Delosperma Echinacea purpurea flower beds garden design lavender Lavendula sedum
  When my parents were in their early seventies and my father had retired from his job in a steel forge, they sold their house to my younger sister and bought a mobile home in a nearby retirement park. This mobile home park really was park-like. The lo...
• July’s Floral Bounty: GBBD, July 2016
  on Jul 15, 2016 in front garden GBBD seasons astilbe cleome cosmos daylilies Echinacea purpurea flower beds Hemerocallis ice plant lavender sedum
  July is the time of peak bloom in my Maine garden. The garden hasn’t reached its peak yet; that is still a week or two away. But I am experiencing that beautiful floral crescendo that will peak in late July. The first flower beds in my new front ga...
• Cherry Tree Problems
  on Jul 13, 2016 in trees black knot disease eastern tent caterpillars Prunus pensylvanica
  Since I last checked in on my little native pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica), it has grown by several inches and has a kind of skinny, gangly adolescent look. The new growth is encouraging, but I am also alert to signs of trouble. One of the reasons...
• Update on the Front Garden Project
  on Jul 6, 2016 in front garden Garden garden projects flower beds front garden project garden design
  This is year two of my five-year (?) front garden project. The opportunity for my new front garden was created when I had an addition built onto the front of my house in 2014. The front garden  is a big project that involves creating a whole new lan...

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