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My guess was going to be damage from cold.

I just bought a white bearded iris in a pot at a plant sale this morning. It is starting to flower. So, yes, you can find them in bloom, or soon to be, in pots, but if you buy unpotted bulbs or rhizomes chances are you won't get flowers this season.

One of my gardening friends adopted two stray yellow ducklings. They grew fast and in two months time her beautiful small backyard and patio was pretty yucky. She ended up re-homing them. Not ideal for her urban yard with a nice garden without a pen or barriers to keep them in. Good luck.

Larkspur and Foxglove are pretty poisonous to eat, be careful using it around animals that can eat them. Diffinately fence or keep them away.

I do the opposite. I put the fence around the chickens. It is a dog exercise pen with bird netting attached over the top. It bends to the shape of the bed or edge of the grass I want them to work on. It fits in my veggie garden path ways. I am not supposed to free range in my city, so...

Does anyone else anticipate with excitement regional plant sales? Here are my favorites: There are 3 plants sales each year that I mark many months ahead of time on my calendar. My poor son always has his birthday party scheduled around one of the dates so it doesn't conflict. 1. Long Beach...

Well, there was a time when Europeans thought tomatoes would kill you. I hope you are able to find enough info to have fun growing it. Good luck.

I don't believe you need another lime or citrus for limes to set fruit. You just get more seeds in the fruit of some varieties. Depending on the type of citrus, sometimes the fruit is larger with cross pollination, but this is not always the case. My semi-dwarf "Bears Lime" is seedless, and...

I have found a few times great deals at Lowes in the garden clearance section on spring flowers from bulbs. I often can get 3 bulbs in a gallon sized pot for about a $1. after the plants that don't sell stop flowering. They will have had good growth still, just no nice flowers anymore. I put...

Looks like a great garden plot! Congrats on the hard work!

When I use the hay mulch, the cat doesn't use it as a litter box. She uses it as a bed instead. Got another pic of the veggie garden fence from the earlier post. It is about 10 years old and could probably use a bit of a face lift. This side has a Black Monuka grape on it. You can tell...

I should have worded my first post better. I was recommending the raspberries for the shade ravenstormTEG mentioned. The other varieties of berries I mentioned are varieties that do well in SoCal, not necessarily full shade. I do grow all the berries in partial shade/ half day here, however...

While I was taking a pic for another post, I took a pic of my neighbor's raspberry patch. Her's is in full shade year round on the North side of her garage. She has amended the soil with large amounts of compost over the years and they are very happy in this spot. Her plants, which were...

No, but it did put a dozen+ or so flowers on around March/ April that first year. I planted it in mid winter. January is when all the deciduous fruit trees, grapes, and berries are for sale around here. I can't remember the growth rate over the year, sorry. My neighbor planted one last year...

I hate bermuda grass. It is evil. It is one of the only plants I would ever say that about. I believe it should have been listed as part of one of the levels of hell in Dante's Inferno. Kind of like how Southerns discribe Kudzu, (Pueraria lobata.) Burmuda Grass is a popular drought tolerant...

I want 3, like some folks do with the open 3 bin systems. With my tree and my gardens, I still have more materials than my bin holds. I end up using a lot of the excess for mulch instead right now.

I totally Agree!

The "Triple Crown" roots wherever the canes touch the ground like the other trailing varieties of blackberries, so it can spread easily that way. If you keep it on a trellis or wire support, it is not very invasive by way of underground roots. I have tried to kill my upright blackberry...

My area only averages about 250 to 400 chill hours most years so we are very limited in what we can successfully grow. We don't see Hardy Kiwis around here at all. The only one folks have good luck with here is the "Vincent." If you go further inland, people report good results with...

Hi! I'm south of you. I go through there all the time on the way to Visalia to visit the in laws. My husband is from Porterville originally. He has talked about moving us back, but I like the mild coastal weather.