The Fairly Quiet Gardener Blog
Plant Spotlight: Green Giant Arborvitae
This is my favorite evergreen hedge plant. I have planted over 50 of them around our property for privacy screening, as a windbreak, and for a gorgeous green backdrop.
High Summer Twilight
Gazing through the dining room windows, I watch the light soften and fade. The garden is bathed in high summer twilight. Smoke from summer forest fires fills the valley and intensifies the atmospheric perspective of the scene. I can just see the hazy outline of the buttes that stand in the distance. A robin touches down on the grass and the resident birds come home to bed down in the brambles.
Growing Pumpkins From Your Halloween Jack-o’-Lanterns
After Halloween last year, we took the pumpkins out back to one of our available garden beds. They're still fairly new with nothing permanently planted yet but I have been enriching the soil with compost, seasoned manure, and grass clippings. I chucked the pumpkins high in the air and each crashed down and split open (that was for fun, not a necessary step).
Creating a Garden: Welcome to Shortmeadow!
Any garden can have a name regardless of size. Even if it's just a nickname like the Garden of Weedin'. But if you're setting out to create a garden of substantial size, let's say half an acre or more, it just seems right to give it a name.
