Getting in the rest of the garden: angelica, cucumbers, painted daisies, pyrethrum, valerian

I spent much of today getting in most of the rest of the garden. We’re supposed to get a high of 88F/31C  This morning it was only 68F/20C, but the sun quickly became intense. What ever happened to the indifferent sun of my youth? Nowadays it feels like it is penetrating to bone. I still [...]

Moving along: wild petunias, dyer’s coreopsis, and wild tobacco

Today I spent some time getting more plants in. I got all the wild white petunias (Petunia axillaris) into large pots.  I grew these two years ago and thought I had plenty of seed to last, but it sold out the first year. Last year I forgot to start it and grew Petunia integrifolia, the [...]