This week, I’ve received several packages of plants ordered from West Coast mailorder nurseries. These are mostly favorites for small gaps in shaded areas such as jack-in-the-pulpits (Arisaema) and mayapples (Podophyllum), but I also ordered thirteen one-year Japanese maple grafts. Isn’t the garden already too overcrowded to add so many trees, you ask? Of course,…
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Better and worse
The rice paper plant (Tetrapanax papyifera, below) has disappointed this year. I was pleased when last year’s stems did not die fully to the ground, but cutting back to a side bud has slowed its growth. Instead of growing to ten feet, they are a bit more than half that height. In this climate, the…
I’ll figure it out
A tiny daphne (Daphne x napolitana ‘Stasek’, below) is flowering in early February in a crevice between granite boulders in the small rock garden. Until a few days ago, this was covered by snow, and today, I saw the flowers only by pushing aside the browned foliage of a vigorous pennstemon. The two plants were…
Ramblin' through Dave's Garden 