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  • Being Green in the Wildlife Garden May 17, 2013
    As I do every morning, I was walking around the property enjoying nature at its best.  I took my normal route past the Rusty Lyonia, Pawpaws and Dwarf Oaks, among others and headed down the bank of the pond into the section that dries up during Florida dry season.  I checked two small temporary pools […]
    Loret T. Setters
  • Silver Dune Lupines of California’s Central Coast May 16, 2013
    An Amtrak train announces its arrival at Grand Avenue Station.  The familiar whistle tells us it is 7:10 am.  At the same time, I can hear the waves of the Pacific Ocean crashing in. I take a walk on the Boardwalk.. it is early… fog is drifting in from the Ocean in large sweeps.  Silver […]
    Kathy Vilim
  • Progress in My Wildlife Garden May 15, 2013
    You may remember that at the end of last summer I worked with my nephew Lucas to rip out my entire wildlife garden because too many invasive plants had taken over. I had to make some choices about what plants could stay, and which ones had to go. In some cases, the invasive plants were […]
    Carole Sevilla Brown
  • Weird Weather and Winter Weeds May 13, 2013
    “I plowed the peas under,” said one of my farmer friends glumly at the market. “They weren’t doing anything but turning yellow.” The farmers in stalls on either side nodded. One does rabbits commercially, and has a garden rather than a farm, but she added “Lost all the broccoli too.” More nods all around. Unfortunate […]
    Ursula Vernon
  • Pondering New Residents in the Garden May 10, 2013
    Just when I think my home wildlife experiences can’t get any better, THEY DO!!!! What a week it was with the pond.  Four new entries on my wildlife life list.  Okay, aside from my Audubon checklist booklet, I don’t have a formal list that I write on. I pretty much keep track via my blog […]
    Loret T. Setters
  • Tried and True Native Perennials for Sun – SE Edition May 9, 2013
    The southeastern region of the US is blessed with some exceptional growing conditions, and the native plants that have always made it their home are rich in diversity. With a region that encompasses mountain tops and coastal plains, a variety of plants exists to satisfy every condition you could have in a garden. Yet we […]
    Ellen Honeycutt
  • What to Know About Attracting Native Bees May 8, 2013
    I’ve been doing a lot of research about attracting native bees to get ready for my appearance at BeesWeek at the Albuquerque Film and Media Experience week-long festival in New Mexico this June 3 – 9. There’s a lot to learn! So I wanted to gather together some of the best resources to help you […]
    Carole Sevilla Brown
  • American Fringe Tree Chionanthus Virginicus Flowering Tree for Urban Gardens May 7, 2013
    American Fringe Tree Chionanthus virginicus has long been a favorite of mine for small space and urban gardens. It is a stunner in bloom – not much compares, and the summer and fall foliage is attractive enough to be worth incorporating it into a formal landscape design. I am happy to have seen this native […]
    Karyl Seppala
  • The Tatting of the Lacewing May 3, 2013
    Observation in the garden comes easily to me.  I meditate each day as I walk around the property, camera in pocket, noting any subtle nuances from other times that I’ve walked the same path.  You’d be surprised that just a hint of a different color on something can attract my attention, no matter how small. […]
    Loret T. Setters

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An Indoor Potager

With the indoor garden potted up and well on it’s way, my thoughts turn toward the artistic element of gardening. Admittedly, I’m not a “straight rows evenly spaced” kind of girl. I’m an “intensively planted, more is better, well-organized” kind of girl. In other words I’m a cottage gardener or a potager planter. (Either works as I am both English and French.) I credit my love of white picket fences, towering lilies and hollyhocks and vegetables in the daisies to my Welsh roots; my love of herbs, design and ordered chaos to my French side.

Looking upon the pots of herbs and vegetables growing under the lights has me itching to create a garden “picture” as the plants mature. As the plants fill in their pots on the shelves, the leaves and blossoms will create a sort of portrait that is easily arranged by shifting and re-arranging pots as well as adding new plants. A single potted nasturtium trailing in front of the nodding blossoms of “White Egg” eggplant, or sweet basil and marigolds surrounding a dwarf “Silvery Fir Tree” tomato. The combinations are as exciting to choose as the plants themselves, I’ll have an indoor potager!

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I’ll use the seed packets for a visual layout. In my outdoor garden emotion out-ranks wisdom and I pretty much plant according to what pleases me. (And then I add a few more here and there.) I believe gardens should be a reflection of the one who plants them, that’s what makes each one so unique!  I should have realized I would want the indoor garden to be beautiful as well as functional and planted accordingly. Arranging indoors will be easier with no digging required, though; that’s a bonus… and who knows? Maybe I’ll discover a winning combination to use next summer outdoors!

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