Miniature Amaryllis

Miniature Amaryllis

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Amaryllis bulb, just planted.

You know how amaryllis can get really tall and floppy and sometimes requiring elaborate staking to keep them from toppling over, no matter how heavy their pot is?

And the elaborate staking, with only the depth of a pot to anchor the actual stakes, can look like something Gilligan himself tried to put together using sticks and vines he found on an uncharted,

A hole in my garden - autumn-flowering snowdrops

A hole in my garden - autumn-flowering snowdrops

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Spring flowering snowdrops.  

Yesterday, I found out there are autumn-flowering snowdrops.

Autumn-flowering.  As in blooming in October.

And now I want some.   I never knew they existed until yesterday and now there is a hole in my garden without them.

I believe the botanical name is Galanthus reginae-olgae subsp reginae-olgae.

Every source I've checked so far is sold out, but that's okay

Garden fairies discuss bulb planting

Garden fairies discuss bulb planting

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Crocus speciosus are done for the year

Garden fairies here!

We are garden fairies and we want to know right now before we take the time to continue writing this post if any of the lovely readers of this blog missed us?

After all, it has been quite a while since we posted on this blog but we have been so busy we can hardly see straight.

One would think we should be winding down our various

Glory of the Snow Bulbs: A One Act Play

Glory of the Snow Bulbs: A One Act Play

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Glory of the Snow Bulbs

A One Act Play

By

Carol M.



Cast of Characters

Bulb…………………………....….A tiny bulb of Glory of the Snow
Corm………………………………A tiny corm of a Crocus
Pillywiggins………………………A song and dance troupe of Pillywiggins, garden fairies who specialize in spring blooms


TIME: Late Fall
SETTING: A lawn


ACT ONE

SCENE 1


(We see a lawn littered with leaves)


BULB

Is it crowded in

Rocking the bulbs in the lawn

Rocking the bulbs in the lawn

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This is a rockery trowel

People ask, "How do you plant bulbs in the lawn?"

I answer, "With a rockery trowel."

They nod knowingly. Of course, they should have thought of using a rockery trowel.

As if they knew what a rockery trowel was.

Show of hands... who knew what a rockery trowel was before reading this post?

A rockery trowel is a trowel with a long skinny head which allows me to

Magical Autumn Crocus - A Story

Magical Autumn Crocus - A Story

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Once upon a time, in the autumn time, a bouquet of garden fairies were sitting in a garden, resting after a long day spent painting tree leaves in the traditional colors of fall.  

The garden fairies were all covered in fall colors - gold, orange, crimson, yellow, burnt umber, brown and all colors in between.  They were tired but satisfied they had done as good a job as they had ever done

Garden fairies explain mystery gladiola

Garden fairies explain mystery gladiola

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Garden fairies here!

We are garden fairies and you should have seen the look on Carol's face when she saw this white gladiola growing in the middle of Plopper's Field, the garden border where she just plops plants in wherever there is a bare spot.

She looked quite startled when she saw this big glad towering up over some daylilies.  Then she looked puzzled and her brow kind of furrowed a