by Avery Beadle | Dec 7, 2023 | Blog
by Tovah Martin While your garden is slumbering outside in the middle of winter, amaryllises are performing major stunts in your home. Like magic, they are sending up their big, flashy flowers to get you through a time when nothing else is happening. Big, buxom, and...
by Avery Beadle | Mar 27, 2023 | Blog
by Tovah Martin Spring might still be waffling with winter, but the first dance is still staged by a few intrepid early risers. You spend winter dreaming about Snowdrops. While the garden is shivering through winter, your fantasies are filled with scenarios where...
by Avery Beadle | Aug 26, 2022 | Blog
by Tovah Martin Ever notice those blue blossoms pop from a distance? Especially in spring, when you are woefully weary of wall-to-wall white, you really pick up on blue flowers as you speed by on the street. So, when the Colorblends Spring Garden pops with Iris...
by Avery Beadle | Aug 26, 2022 | Blog
by Tovah Martin You’ve been hoping for them. But still, Snowdrops always sneak up on you. Seems as though the snow has scarcely melted (and more might still come) when the Snowdrops stage their brave crusade against winter. Those first flowers send a clear...
by Avery Beadle | Aug 26, 2022 | Blog
by Tovah Martin For all our color-starved neighbors and friends, Tommies are the cure. They need only the slightest hope of sun, and whammo! They are popping up and performing. Some snow might greet them, but a dusting is fine. Tommies soldier on. At first, they look...
by Avery Beadle | Jul 9, 2020 | Blog
by Tovah Martin You already know what bulbs can do in spring. But what you might be missing is all their feats during the rest of the growing season. This morning, I noticed a dragonfly perched on a spent daffodil flower spike in my meadow. It’s been many weeks...
