Sugar Creek Gardens

POSTED BY KIM FOR TINA — Our own Tina Paletta gave a holiday decorating talk this weekend, and when I came in this morning I found one of the handouts, which I thought would be fun to share with ...

POSTED BY KIM — Do you see why I love this flower?? It is mid-November and this plant is going gangbusters. This particular cultivar is ‘Oranges and Lemons,’ my favorites. It blooms ...

POSTED BY KIM — I do a lot of digging in my yard. I install plants. I move plants. I move plants again. Dig dig dig. And over the years, I’ve unearthed some pretty interesting things. ...

POSTED BY KIM — Is this not the most beautiful rose you’ve seen in your LIFE?! ‘Abraham Darby’ is the only climbing rose I have at the moment, and right now, it’s spectacular. I could see this bloom from my bedroom window and Ihad to take a picture of it.

POSTED BY KIM — Have you ever planted a perennial that died, so you planted it again, and it died again? So you planted it again?… How many times are you willing to buythe sameplant before ...

I was walking back from a music test at 8:30 in the morning a few days ago when I was forced to stop, rub my eyes, and wonder if I was dreaming. A large patch of purple irises was in full flower at the edge of a parking lot. ...

POSTED BY KIM — I found this silly little book sitting around the office last week, and after flipping through it, decided it might be worth a second look. The illustrations are really cute — this would make a great holiday gift forthe gardener who has everything (even slugs)!

POSTED BY KIM — You’ll have to humor me. It’s one of my last chances to write about hydrangeas this year, since they’re all getting ready to drop their leaves. I’m always ...

POSTED BY KIM — I love crocosmia. When my husband and I went to England a few years ago, I was surprised to see it all over the countryside. It has such a tropical look — it was kind of funny to see it in the middle of these English cottage gardens.

POSTED BY KIM — My husband sent me this link some time ago, and I return to it occasionly when I consider how I would spend any money I win in the lottery (note: I don’t buy lottery tickets, ...

POSTED BY KIM — It’s amaryllis season! I asked my neighbors Peter and Renate yesterday about the status of their beautiful red amaryllis, which they had in their front window last year (and ...

POSTED BY KIM — Happy Halloween everyone! It’s a great day because the sun is shining and I will be nice and dry as I try to keep up with the kids tonight as we trick-or-treat.

Thanks to www.cuteoverload.com, a site dedicated to all things animal and cute, I was alerted to a new product called “The Wearable Hummingbird Feeder.”