Can’t miss the knockout

Hard-hitting color. Our front corner knockout roses make a statement as we move into college football season. They always wear the red of my alma mater Maryland Terrapins, I will add.

Taking its turn

Lovely time. My dear wife Karen does so well choosing garden plants that take turns with their blooming cycles in our gardens, front and back. The cedum turns out its flower-tops at the end of summer. As I admire the plant out front, I also think it almost looks like it could look good in…

Still a knockout, our front red roses

Thank you for the bright red, roses. George Three took a look at the blooms of our front yard corner red rose bush and declared that they were nice. Their first summer of house ownership and careful tending of their gardens has sharpened his eye, for sure. And terrific daughter Elisabeth agreed, too, as my…

New things are blooming up front

A tall, scraggly bush has coaxed some cuss words out of my dear wife Karen and I since we moved into A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville last October. We never thought it would amount to much. But instead of digging it out or cutting it down, we trimmed, pruned and hoped.…

So many new plants to color A Bitty Better

My dear wife Karen’s weekly food run to the local supermarket got sidetracked. I’d had my suspicion as the clock ticked on, but the text I received from Ballantyne Gardens over on Hopkins Road cemented the deal. I admired the plant in the photo she sent over. Little did I know how much more there’d…

Galeville’s getting green

There’s a coming-out spring party in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I still don’t quite know what these perennial plants are going to be. More stuff is coming up out front, too. These particular plants were out of the ground a month ago. Then came a big snow…