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One-Liners
For the last month or so I’ve been busy with things that have nothing to do with gardening, but the season marches on whether I garden and write about it or not. What follows is a feeble attempt to...
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Simply Red
Cuphea llavea 'Tiny Mice' It must be time for my annual post extolling the virtues of Cupheas. But you could just go back and read one of the previous ones. So instead, how about the virtues of red?...
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
Hot hot hot edition. It’s been a hellish summer in more ways than one. Richmond, not far away from Tangled Branches South, has had the hottest July ever. Before that it was the hottest June ever....
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Tying Up Loose Ends
Updating a few items from last year. In reverse order: Mystery Insect. Margined Blister Beetle The late season pest devouring the eggplant leaves was a Margined Blister Beetle. Uh oh. These turn into a...
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
A rainy day – phew! Everything is happening so fast in the garden now; I feel like I don’t have time to look at the flowers, much less photograph and write about them. On Thursday, we finally got a...
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
….:::: Dianthus Edition ::::…. It’s the 15th of the month again and time for garden bloggers to show off what’s blooming in their gardens via Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, a internet event created and...
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
It’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and I have new plants to show you. Oenothera glazioviana 'Tina James' and associates I grew Oenothera glazioviana ‘Tina James’ from seed last year. Despite being chewed...
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Pentapetes phoenicia
…is the mystery plant in the previous post. The flowers make me think of Abutilon – they have that nodding look – and they’re both in the Malvaceae family. It’s native to south Asia, where it’s a weed...
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day was yesterday, and I have a surprising number of plants still in bloom, considering the worsening drought and the lateness of the season. Central Virginia seems to be faring...
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: North
The middle of October. Got your pumpkins yet? And time once again for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, dreamed up by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. Flowers are ever more sparse here at Tangled Branches North,...
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Catching Up and a Tip for Dahlias
But we’re still gardening. In fact, we’ve got the kitchen garden back into better shape than it’s been in years. And we’re growing a lot more flowers in it and fewer vegetables. The dahlias are...
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Plants for Patient People
This is my new favorite fall plant – Salvia leucantha, or Mexican Bush Sage. I’ve grown it for a couple years now and it goes like this. Find a smallish plant in the spring at the nursery (I got mine...
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