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Cold Climate Gardening
http://coldclimategardening.com
Cold Climate Gardening provides links, book reviews, recommended plants, a multi-author weblog, and a garden blog directory to help you successfully garden in the northern climates of USDA Hardiness Zones 4 and colder.
- Added on: Mar 10th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Kathy Purdy
- Listed in: Home and Garden Directories
- Tags: gardening plants gardens northern cold_climate garden_blogs
Recent Posts
Why I Garden
Why do I garden? Why does an artist paint? Why does a pianist spend days practicing for an hour long concert? The truth is, I don’t know why I garden. I don’t know why I have an affinity for plants, a need to see them thrive, a hungering...
Horticulture Magazine Lists Their Twenty Favorite Garden Blogs
I was named as one of Horticulture’s favorite garden blogs–many thanks! ...
Adenophora and Its Evil Twin Revisited
Campanula rapunculoides: Good looking but hardly innocent A while back I wrote an essay for Horticulture detailing my attempt to figure out the difference between ladybells and creeping bellflower, and I wrote up a blog post with additional info...
Still Blooming: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day November 2009
I was going to blather on about how this November was milder than last, but when I checked, I discovered that’s what I said last November, too! It was more typically cold in November 2007; however, the larches had more needles left at that time...
Planting Tulips, Part 2
Yesterday I told you how I finally realized species tulips planted in the peony bed would help to bridge the bloom gap of late spring. I got the tulips chosen and purchased, and now I’m going to show you how I planted them. The Smartest Way to...
Planting Tulips, Part 1
After the snowdrops, after the crocuses, after the daffodils, there is just about nothing blooming in the front of the house until the June show of peonies, irises, and poppies. I have not been the first person to notice this bloom gap, not by a long...
