Perennials

A few days ago I was taking the long way home from doing some errands. I had Nate in the car with me and he was having a good snooze in his car seat, and I didn’t want it to end early. I just kept on driving. In my travels I...
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We have a lot of projects on the go in our yard this year, as is usually the case. We seem to like to bite off more than we can chew. Take, for instance, the fact that we recently tore up our deck. The wood has been laying around the yard...
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If there’s one thing that this spring has inspired in me, it’s that we need more spring flowering bulbs and perennials in the garden. All around us there are tulips, hyacinth, phlox and daffodils in bloom. We have some dwarf tulips and grape hyacinths in our back yard, but nothing flowering out...
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It’s time for another edition of True Garden Confessions! You’d think this lovely sedum would be re-emerging in the perennial border, wouldn’t you? Well, it’s not. Last year I had this Sedum spectabile ‘Neon’ in a pot on our deck. I don’t usually plant perennials in containers but I thought I would...
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I’m not 100% sure which variety of anemone this is, but I do know it is of the cutleaf variety. I had a look at Perennials.com this morning and I think it might be Anemone multifida ‘Annabella White’. I let it go to seed last year and it has scattered everywhere in...
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