A local nursery in our area. They have great plants. Request your Annie’s Annuals & Perennial 2010 Catalog here.
I love their seed packet artwork… Request your Botanical Interests 2010 Seed Catalog here.
While your at it, follow them on Twitter: @AnniesAnnuals and @BotanicalSeeds…
…or check our their websites: Annie’s Annuals & Perennials and Botanical Interest…
This weekend, I found these fungi growing on a dead tree trunk behind our storage.
I just got an email from Territorial Seed Company mentioning their new series of instructional videos. The first one focuses on starting seeds using several products they sell. It’s pretty basic, but good information… plus the host was a kinda cute, in my opinion ;)
I saw this on a friend’s Flickr:
Then noticed Annie Annuals sells them:
http://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/plant_display.asp?prodid=714
so next time I’m there, I’ll see if they have it…
But if anyone has seed and would like to swap, contact me…
It’s fun to grow from seeds :)
I saw this tree blooming on 4th Street in Berkeley, CA. I’m not sure what kind it is… but it looked striking along the pale yellow wall.
Lavender Star Flower, Grewia occidentalis (Family: Malvaceae)
One of my Mom’s Cymbidium Orchid that is now in bloom outside.
Cymbidium sp. (Family: Orchidaceae)
I just got an email from a fellow "Dave’s Garden" friend telling me that Dave’s Garden members can get a discount on Coleus at Rosy Dawn Gardens through January 31, 2001. Here’s more info on the sale:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1070220/
I have to go through my overwintering Coleus cuttings and take inventory of what I have and figure out what I want.
I also didn’t know Rosy Dawn Gardens had a blog called "Coleus Connection". Here’s the link: rosydawngardens.blogspot.com
I’m debating if I should experiment and plant a Potato plant this year… Not only do I want to grow a Potato plant, but I want to graft a Tomato plant onto it, kinda like this one from Spring River Nurseries. The only reason I’m hesitant is because I read that the yields for both would be inferior to planting both the Potato and Tomato separately.
I’m not really concerned with the Potato yield, since any Potato harvested would kinda be a bonus… and maybe I can use a Cherry-type Tomato, since those just grow too wild (big) in our garden.
I’ll give it some more thought… and do a little more research…
[Update] After posting this, I had another thought. I don’t know if this can be done, so I’ll research it more later… I wonder if an Eggplant can be grafted onto a Tomato rootstock. The Eggplants I’ve grown never seem to get big and don’t bareany decent fruits, so I wonder if this would be a good experiment to see if a grafted Eggplant would grow more vigorously on a Tomato rootstock.
