Save 80% on International Calls from Your Cell Phone No PINs and No Monthly Fee. Prepay or pay-as-you-go.
Checkout the environmentally friendly gardening tools below
Go Green and SAVE at GreenGardenTools.com


Cold Climate Gardening
One of the longest-running garden blogs on the web, Cold Climate Gardening also provides links, book reviews, and plant profiles to help you garden successfully. Freelance author Kathy Purdy shares her gardening insights with you. Come join the conversation!
  • Cornell Site Helps Match Spring Bulbs With Early Perennials
    If you’re like me, every spring you walk around the garden looking at the fresh leaves of emerging perennials, thinking that you should really plants some spring flowering bulbs nearby to take advantage of the lovely foliage. But I never write down my ideas, and I always forget. Fortunately, researchers with the Horticulture Department of [...]
  • Cold Climate Gardening Turns Eight
    Yes, I started blogging on this date eight years ago. So much has changed. I’ve been through three different publishing platforms, adopting WordPress in 2005. Felt so alone when I started, so began a blog directory to keep track of other garden blogs. Now my directory is only the tip of the iceberg! Zanthan Gardens [...]
  • Joe-Pye Weed: Wildflower Wednesday
    A brook borders the northern edge of our property, and several clumps of Joe-Pye weed (Eupatorium fistulosum) grow along the banks. I love the silvery mauve blossoms, which are large enough and tall enough to be seen across the chicken yard, a good seventy feet away. Allan Armitage, in his Native Plants for North American [...]
  • Earliest Colchicums Ever
    After two days of much-needed rain, I decided to walk around the garden to see what I could see. I wasn’t really expecting to see colchicums blooming, because they usually start in September. Perhaps the extended hot and dry spell, followed by the cool, rainy weather encouraged them to break dormancy early. At any rate, [...]
  • How to Garden Like You’re in the Tropics When You’re Stuck in the Snow
    Editor’s note: Starting seeds is usually something cold climate gardeners do in the wi– no, I won’t say that word. But some seeds can be started now. Guest blogger Lisa Ueda shares her method for starting cannas from seed. My winter vacation destination of choice has always been the Florida Keys, where I usually fantasize [...]
  • Three for Thursday: Tomato-Pesto Pizza
    Tomatoes Pesto Tomato-Pesto Pizza Here’s how we make this pizza. Three for Thursday: playing along with Cindy of My Corner of Katy.
  • August Doldrums: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day August 2010
    Most of the garden looks a bit unkempt. Browned foliage, browned, undeadheaded flowers, interspersed with plants that like August. Bring on the heat, they say. What’s a little drought to a plant like me? The garden would look pretty terrific if I had been deadheading and deadleafing right along. But as usual, I am pulling [...]
  • Hydrangeas that Thrive in a Cold Climate
    Hydrangea arborescens, Hydrangea anomala, and Hydrangea paniculata are three terrific hydrangeas for cold climates. Remember those names. Write them down on the inside of your arm with a pen if you have to before you visit your local nursery, so that you will not be seduced by the flashy macrophyllas calling to you from every [...]
  • Colchicum interview on Web Talk Radio
    I join Helen Yoest of Gardening With Confidence this week to talk about Colchicums on Web Talk Radio. They will be blooming in about a month, you know.
  • Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat
    Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat via The Wired Gardener http://bit.ly/bvVLTi. The Wired Gardener is a newsletter, now become a blog, of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s McClean Library. It almost always has a link to an online gardening resource I hadn’t heard about, and now includes helpful blog posts about current gardening topics, such as [...]


Two Souls As One

100% Free -- Always

Domain Offerings

Premium Domain Sales

Encryptian

Encrypt/Decrypt Like an Encryptian

Latitude Longitude Distance

Pinpoint Geographic Coordinates of any location on Earth, Measure Distances Aerially, Much More...

Online Dating Forum

Share, Live, Love, Learn

Value Vault

Coupon Syndication Network
© 2009 - 2010 Plantskola.com | Home | Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Contact Us