…eggs by creating dyes from the plants they've grown. Geranium White Alyssum Blue Lobelia Herbs You can focus… …Soldiers' columbine, chocolate cosmos, chocolate-mint scented geranium, and chocolate mint. Don't forget to mulch with cocoa beans…
…and repeat blooms for a super-long bloom period. Grows 18 to 24 inches tall. 'Johnson's Blue' Geranium This popular geranium produces a heavy shower of lavender-blue flowers over many weeks in late spring. Grows 15-18 inches…
…Repeater Bulbs TULIPS Appledorn (Darwin Hybrids), Aladdin (yellow) NARCISSUS/DAFFODILS Carleton, King Alfred, Geranium, Hawera, Poetaz varieties GRAPE HYACINTHS The Second Secret - The second secrest of the Dutch commercial bulb farmers…
…in mass plantings. 'Leila Verde Floribunda Rose Octavia Hill Floribunda Rose Nicole Floribunda Rose Geranium Red Floribunda Rose Shrub roses: These roses have changed the way many people view roses. Shrub roses, especially…
…protection. (It's not useful for ticks.) Buzz Away, a citronella oil, worked for 2 hours. Bite Blocker made of soybean, geranium and coconut oils worked for 3.5 hours, the same as 7% DEET. In other tests, people near citronella candles had 42% fewer…
Bob discusses landscaping and the stone terrace with Ruth Foster, landscape consultant. They stand in the diamond shaped courtyard with a series of diamond shaped planters. The first is filmed with herbs, the second with roses and the third a perennial garden. The fourth and outermost garden is a white garbed with maroon accents to match the trim on the Victorian�s windows. Ruth added sandy loam from a farm, as much of the soil on Martha�s Vineyard is almost a sandy beach type soil. In the herb garden she plants Lavender, Thyme, Basil, Parsley, Chives and Artimesia, which is in all the beds to tie them together. Ruth also selects a Japanese Red Maple and �New Dawn� climbing roses to highlight the garden. Bob then meets up with Fred Portinier, the hardscape consultant. He started with a baseline and worked his way out from the house using bluestone and a base of native island stone dust, gently sloping out to the driveway.
…perennial plants can co-exist and grow through it. Among them aretall daylilies, lily of the valley, hayscented fern, wild geranium, w ild anemone and false solomon's seal. Myrtle is subject to rot diseases so may not survive under a sprinkler system…
…Pink Chimes bleeding heart varies by variety Alba, Golden Heart dianthus 4 to 8 Bath Pink, Firewitch geranium 4 or 5 to 8 Midnight Reiter, New Hampshire heuchera 4 to 9 Purple Palace lysimachia 4 to 8 Creeping…
…them in pots all summer, then just brings those inside. By spring they have sprouted anew and flowers form, especially if geranium or tomato fertilizer is given to encourage buds. In Vermont, where still they hew to frugal ways, my friend makes cuttings…
