Gardening in Central Florida

Pink Paeonie Papaver. My favorite bloom in the garden. A small bed of 'Rocket' Snaps. This varietal does very well here in Central F...

Out fussing about the garden, picking tomatoes and cukes just as the sun went down, I looked up in time to see a barred owl swoop across the...

A bouquet I picked for my secretary for 'National Secretary's Day', along with some cucumbers from the garden. The flowers are ...

let's see here... starting with the upper-left and ending in the center: 'Dead Mickey's Begonia (fibrous root); 'Céline Fore...

A Yellow Currant Tomato (from TGS), loaded with fruit. This has been an exceptionally vigorous, branching plant that set fruit early. Ripe...

I think I have a pretty good idea of what my summer garden will look like: Eggplants: one plain-Jane variety "Black Beauty" that I...

Alan, my fellow blogger , answers my question about figgie sex... I wrote.... Figs. I didn't see the flowers, but it must have flowers, ...

Egyptian Walking Onions with some wheat growing through it -- I used wheat straw as one of my layers in composting this winter. Not bright....

Figs. I didn't see the flowers, but it must have flowered, right? Figs rule. Quailgrass, a few weeks after I planted it. Fairly slow to...

Foxglove 'Foxy' getting ready to bloom... Ranunculus. Singularly beautiful, but very picky about water and temperature. I doubt I...

...and Easy To Grow Bulbs taketh away. Good news on the income tax front allowed me to indulge in a bit of a consumer binge... Gladiolus Gl...

Michael's squash blossom recipe... For about a dozen of Nize & Barbara's squash blossoms. It looks more complicated than it...

An Easter bouquet of Dietes , Rosa Laevigata , Chinese Wisteria, Freesia, blooms from a fibrous-root Begonia (Dead Micky's Begonia), Als...

flowers-gardening - New York Times : "I GREW up with roses that were sprayed so heavily with pesticides that I probably risked my life ...

It's been a tremendously busy time of the year for me. I've had time enough to water, but that's about it. Today, though, was ab...

From the Climate Prediction Center at the National Weather Service. The charts show the probabilty for two scenarios: hotter than normal/an...

Ranunculus Freesia. Delphiniums.

One of our native irises, Blue-Eyed Grass ( Sisyrinchium atlanticum ). Very tough, very perennial, very cheery. From the comments: Given whe...

I noticed yesterday that my freesia has begun to bloom -- a cherry-red stalk from the freesia that I planted a year ago December. The new bl...