I bought thai basil (among many other things) at a local plant sale a few weeks ago. Now my thai basil looks … sad. I’ve tried watering it, not watering it. The weather lately has been highs in the mid 70s to 80s and lows in the 60s and upper 50s. It’s situated in a [...]

  This can either be identified like a small tree, or huge bush (it is tall about 3 meters). In full bloom right now. Smells like jasmin. Does anyone know what it is ?  I can’t get a full photo since it is in some consulate’s summer house’s garden – behind a wall, just a few [...]

Just wanting to satisfy a few curiosities brewing inside after a leisure trip around the yard with my dog. I found a mint of some kind, a lambs ear, some other mint with some pink things on it… then I wandered around to the side and the front to check out what I have growing [...]

I planted onions, scallions, broccoli, beets, chard, pac choi, and lettuce. I watered the ~900 sf garden plot. I watered the three raised beds, hand-watered a few new flowers, and watered the planters and containers. I double-dug half of one of the raised beds (there are ten strawberries in the other half, and I will [...]

Yesterday, I planted some peppers and tomatoes (bought at Lowes) in five-gallon containers. Several hours later, I noticed that one of the pepper plants (a sweet banana) had two newer leaves that were curly. I don’t know whether they had always been so and I just did not notice, or if they’re a new development. [...]

Hurrah! My sunburst sunflowers seem to be doing okay! This makes me happy since the others seemed to have died -maybe. I took my candytufts and everything else that didn’t outright die and planted them in the ground last week. Yes, we know now that we planted too early, but I figured they would either [...]

My garden is off to a nice start. I’ve got several things sprouting since last I made these. I hope you enjoy them. The second one behind the cut. Crossposted from: The gourd and pumpkin community.

My mother has a little pot of basil in her kitchen and noticed holes appearing in the leaves. She called last night and asked me to look at it when I came over this morning. After inspecting the plant for a minute, I found at least 4 cabbage loopers (inch worms?) munching it. I don’t [...]

My mom called me yesterday from Lowe’s. She and Step-dad were in the garden center. Apparently they’d gotten a huge new shipment of plants, but had nowhere to put them. The solution? Lowe’s put all plants (all plants, everything from bedding plants to trees) in the garden center at half off (!!!) for two hours. [...]

Today OH and I went to visit his mother, who is living in and renovating a beautiful 16th century farmhouse in the middle of the wilds of Suffolk, England. Looking around the extensive land surrounding the place, we noticed some Primulas growing wild, which caused me to mention that I can never seem to get [...]