Garden Blogger Posts of the Week Vol.5

What posts stood out to me this week? Read on!

I was struck by the beautiful setting in Rob's post at Our French Garden in the Beautiful Dordogne. The rest of the post is great too but you know what they say about first impressions!

This week was Carol's Garden Blogger's Bloom Day which is always worth a look at all the wonderful blooms each month that people submit through their own postings. Also you really should take a look at Hayefield's post which is written by Nancy Ondra and great garden author. She always has something fantastic took look at! If you liked the caryopteris I showed you earlier in the week pay attention to her Summer Sunshine caryopteris!

And for the first entry to the Fall Color Project go visit Mr. McGregor's Daughter. The colors are just beginning! Her post will have the top spot in next Friday's Fall Color Post. Remember that every Friday I'll put together the Fall Color Project Posts for the previous week in one summary post.

If you want to catch up on what I wrote this week for The Home Garden take a quick gander below! (yep I used the word gander in a sentence for the second time, can you believe it?)

• Last Sunday I wrote a post about what needs done in my front garden. While I accomplished some  weeding and moved a couple small plants there is still a lot to be done. There always is more to be done isn't there?
• I'm pleased with how my caryopteris row is turning out. I only had a couple more gaps to fill in which I tackled later in the week. I can't recommend caryopteris enough for fall blooms. Get it, plant it, love it!
• You may have missed a small update on a shelf-cabinet I built for the garden shed. It's time to get more storage for pots and all the miscellaneous trappings of a busy greenhouse!
• For my entry this month for Bloom Day I added a little collage effect on the pictures. I was surprised by how much I had blooming and needed to consolodate a few of the pictures. The collage was a neat option.
• Cilantro - I like it and it's growing again in the garden!

Garden Blogger Posts of the Week Vol.4

Unfortunately this week my garden blog surfing was cut back severely. I just didn't get the time to go and visit some of my favorite bloggers and as a consequence I've only marked one post for today - but it's a good one!

You might be thinking "he's on a path kick" when you read this next post and remember the posts I mentioned last week. Pathways are one of the most useful garden design elements you can add so they should be talked about - repeatedly! What I find amazing about Shirley's path at Choosing Voluntary Simplicity is that the stones she used aren't necessarily small flat stones - most of them are large round rocks that have at least one flat side. She's placed the flat side up for walking and the rest of the stone is buried under the pathway soil. A lot of work went into her pathway!

A look back at this week on The Home Garden:

You can "see" my invisible nasturtiums in my most recent Grow Project post! OK they aren't really invisible - we've just had too much harsh weather for the nasturtiums to do well this year. Tuesday's post was a highlight of last weekend's big project - fixing the drainage area around my shed! Another weekend project was making some stepping stones from concrete.

And don't forget to capture some images of fall for the Fall Color Project 2010!

Garden Blogger Posts of the Week Vol.3

It's time to highlight a few more neat posts from the garden blogging world! Let's get right to it!

If you're a fan of paths (and I don't know any gardener who isn't) I noticed two posts this week about paths that might interest you. Carol of May Dreams Gardens recently decided to remodel her gardens and is incorporating  a pathway into the mix. Catherine of A Gardener in Progress already has an established pathway that looks fantastic with natural stepping stones that guide you down toward a white picket fence. Along the way you have hydrangeas and Solomon's Seal.

For something useful how about visiting Plants Are the Strangest People? Mr. Subjunctive write a nice tutorial on how to pack and ship plants though the mail. Definitely worth a look if you enjoy swapping plants with gardeners over long distances.

And this week on The Home Garden:

Fall Vegetable Garden

What's wrong with your garden? Would you like to take a moment to rant about that? I did! The weather outside was perfect on Saturday but that hasn't been the case this summer and the garden has suffered. I finally began the fall vegetable garden with a small 3'x4' raised bed. I'll add more vegetables to the other raised beds each week to stagger my harvests.

Sweet Autumn Clematis

Earlier in the week I began a new garden using a scalp the grass technique combined with a layer of grass clippings. It works very well for a non-chemical way to eliminate sod in areas for gardens.

Have you ever made a planting mistake? Everyone has...go see one of my recent errors! Of course some people might say my planting of the Sweet Autumn Clematis might be a mistake as well, we'll see!

Garden Blogger Posts of the Week - Vol.2

http://www.growingthehomegarden.com/2010/08/garden-blogger-posts-of-week.htmlWelcome to the second week of Garden Blogger Posts of the Week. Last week I highlighted two posts that I thought were interesting, unique, or stood out in some way (cool pictures etc.). Today I'll mention a few more. Please pay them a visit when you get the chance!

I thought Nancy Bond's pictures of the eagle were very cool. Imagine looking out your front door to photograph a bald eagle! And all I get are gold finches and cardinals!

Gail's post resonated with me this week because of the sentiment she expressed. Much of my garden isn't looking like I want it to because of various factors - and often all I see are the bad things. Gail reminds us to not forget about the good things that make our gardens special to ourselves.

Meems in NYC wrote a post thinking about starting her own garden shed! Of course since I've been working on a similar project I thought her upcoming project is definitely worth following.

Please visit those three bloggers if you haven't already!

And if you would like to catch up on The Home Garden Posts this week here's the weekend wrap up!


Last weekend I tackled a couple projects. One was a plant holding bin/raised bed and the other a birdhouse. The plant holding bin took some time to complete but having a place to put extra plants and the results of my home plant propagating will be very helpful. Another project completed this week was a second raised bed made for housing my strawberry plants. It's a raised bed garden that is built into the slope to give the garden a tiered effect.

Another post mentioned layering as a plant propagation method. Two plants in my garden layered this week to provide me with a couple more free!

I also announced the winner of the organic weed killer products and told you about some little tulip poplars that need new homes.

Garden Blogger Posts of the Week!

I thought I would do something a little different for this Sunday and highlight a couple Garden Blogger posts this week that I thought were either very interesting, had very cool photos, showed me something new, or took me somewhere fantastic! I hope you'll pay a visit to the bloggers listed below and see what I found to be very interesting posts.

Garden Blogger Posts of the Week!

Jodi on Friday at Bloomingwriter in her post showed a very interesting place called Cape Split. The scenery and pictures are nothing short of breathtaking with giant rocks jutting out from the bay to form craggy islands some of which are only accessible by those who are lucky enough to have wings. 

Carol's post at Flower Hill Farm was very interesting. Titled A Royal Beginning it highlights the early stages of development in the life of everyone's favorite butterfly - the Monarch! If you're curious about what the egg or caterpillar of the monarch butterfly looks like she has some very nice close-up pictures. The prefect thing if you are trying to identify one!

Please go pay a visit to those two blogs and see what you think! If you missed anything this week on The Home Garden here's a quick wrap up.

This week began with a look at the blooms in the garden for Garden Blogger's Bloom Day. With the awful weather we were having it is a wonder anything was blooming. Fortunately the rains have returned, but unfortunately in the form of thunderstorms and flash floods. You just can't have everything! I also managed to use up all my free Craigslist bricks in the Garden Shed for the floor. I'm still searching for more bricks as I can to finish it out. Melons and peppers are showing up in the vegetable garden. The peppers have been good but I'm still waiting on the first ripe melon!

My fellow plant propagation nuts might enjoy the post on propagating a Shasta viburnum. One of the most beautiful shrubs of spring! If you like pictures better than propagation posts (really how could you?) there were a few garden pictures in Friday's post that might be worth a look. As always beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  And since everyone likes free stuff why not enter the EcoSMART giveaway?

I hope you're having a great weekend! I'll get to show you my latest project this week so stay tuned!

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