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The Aftermath: My Garden Before & After Texas’s Record-Breaking Winter Storm
With shards of ice raining down from the trees, the snow is finally melting down here in Central Texas. It’s a little early to start running victory laps for my garden, but we know how good I am about waiting… I didn’t even have the patience to hold off until temps reached 32F (like I told myself I would) to uncover the plants. Just before 9AM, the temperatures were around 25F, and the plants were already getting sun and I said “F- it. I’m uncovering them.” Many of the plants had a soft little layer of frost on them, but overall everything I covered looked pretty darn great. I wanted…
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Deja Vu – The Big Freeze
Considering the volume of *content* I was cranking out last week, it may have been a surprise to all 6 of you regulars who check on my blog to see that I haven’t posted since Monday. Well, we have been very busy preparing physically… spiritually… emotionally… for the cold snap that came barreling through Central Texas this week. As my husband would say, this wasn’t my first rodeo preparing for the cold weather. I saw the forecast early on and did my best to protect my plants (detailed here), but as a Southern California native new to gardening, it was quite a struggle for me. The Calm Before the Ice…
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Attack of the Frozen Javelinas
Yep, you read that right. In the final segment of my “How I Got Here” series, things get shaken up a bit. I had left off talking about the bounty of roots and bulbs I ordered for fall planting in the yard at the old house. As you can probably surmise by my calling it the “old house,” Andrew and I moved. All garden and landscaping plans I previously made were now on the cutting room floor. I held off on planting everything for a few weeks so I could bury them at the new house. A New Chapter On the day we received keys to our house, our To-Do…
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Dunking Some Ranunculus – A Crash Course in Pre-Sprouting
Hiiii everyone 🙂 Me again, your friendly neighborhood gardener. Today, we’re going to talk about how I planted my ranunculus. I’m a first-time ranunculus grower, so I looked to my one of my greatest sources of inspiration and floral knowledge, Floret Flower. This fall, they sent out a number of lovely guides that showed the best way to grow cut flowers. I don’t have a shareable link to those pamphlets, but they do have a post on their blog that summarizes how to pre-sprout, just without the pretty pictures. Here, I won’t try to re-create the wheel – I followed Floret’s instructions quite closely, and if you’re a stickler for…
blogging about buds & blooms
