My birthday is the Ides of March. So perchance you'll forgive my proclivity to ignore warnings. Have you ever fallen head over heels with a plant despite other gardeners' cautions? Tis indeed the case with Fen's Ruby Cypress Spurge. I've got it bad for this little...
Hah. I thought I'd pick a simple topic today. Because at least in the Pacific Northwest, it is full-on gardening season, and there is so much to do. As I run hither and yon, horrified by what I see, I periodically remind myself, these are "troubles" of my own making....
Usually, March is a month for noses pressed to windows, impatiently waiting until it's warm enough, dry enough, late enough to get out there with a shovel and start the frenzied rush of spring chores. Spring's early arrival in the Pacific Northwest changed the pace of...