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November 10, 2018 By // by ktplant

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My fave photo this week is of the Oklahoma blue s

Spring is here! My pup says so. (See the second pi

Spring is here! My pup says so. (See the second pic!) Daffodils and other plants are coming up.
I’m not planting my summer plants yet—no tomatoes please—but I have more lavender being delivered today. Excited about lavender honey later this summer.
Also, still pruning roses and cutting back perennials. Yesterday, Oklahoma broke a 48-year record, and the temperature got up to 96 degrees F.
Too hot for March, but temps are going down over the weekend.
Stay safe everyone. 😘

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People spurn forsythia—I actually love it—, bu

People spurn forsythia—I actually love it—, but in these trying times, I was really pleased to see this bright yellow arch at my local park. It has been raining here and cloudy for days and days. We had an hour or two of time between showers, and I ran to the park just to get out of the house and have some fresh air.
It’s too wet to work in the garden right now.

When you look at this just know that I’m sending all of you prayers for good health and happiness. We will get through this.

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Just a garden update from the back garden. I’m d

Just a garden update from the back garden. I’m doing spring chores: cutting back roses, crapemyrtles, ornamental grasses etc. Busy, day full of wind.
We had rain last night too.
Happy Monday!
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Hey Flower and Veggie friends, let's start some se

My latest post on my RDR blog and our @thegardenan

It's time to clean up the garden in Oklahoma. Toda

It's time to clean up the garden in Oklahoma. Today is blustery and cold--I watched the snow fall last night—but as the week progresses, the weather gets much more cheerful day-by-day.
Get out there and start working so you can see your daffodils and other bulbs spring forth in the next few weeks.
Even this far north, I already have 'Tete-a-Tete' blooming. It is so cool to watch as it grows a longer stem each day.
Spring is coming my friends. Hang in there!
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The many moods of my red fountain in the potager o

The many moods of my red fountain in the potager or kitchen garden.
We built this fountain from two pots and a lot of rigging. We had to replace the pump the other day.
It just keeps on bubbling. Birds and bees love it which makes me glad.
Did you know I originally wanted blue? Blue is my favorite color, but the red in the surrounding bricks determined the color.
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Are there any more beautiful words then summer har

Are there any more beautiful words then summer harvest? This was from my garden in summer when I shared with you many of the peppers and tomatoes I was growing. Some of these weren’t available to the public in 2018, but are now. I especially loved ‘Ring Leader’ jalapeño pepper that year. I’ve grown it several times. It is a great hot pepper and very prolific with thick walls for stuffing with cheese or nut cheese.
You can buy the seeds from @burpeehg online. As for the other peppers, I’ grew Red Ember’ F1 is a fantastic hot pepper from @johnnys_seeds and an @aasgardenwinners. Stuffed Fruit bell pepper was another I tested that year. I can’t find info on it anymore, but there are other great bell pepper selections out there. ‘Confetti’ hybrid is a small sweet bell pepper with variegated foliage also from Burpee. ‘Red Racer’ F1 tomato seeds are available from @territorialseedcompany. Amazel Basil™ is from @provenwinners . You can buy plants online.
As for the eggplant, I really love the varieties ‘Fairy Tale’ F1 hybrid, ‘Gretel’ and ‘Hansel, all @aasgardenwinners. All are great to grow.
I like Asian eggplant over Italian types because the skin is thin and less bitter. To start eggplant seeds indoors, you will need a heat mat. You can find these on Amazon and some local organic growing stores.
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I'm sitting here in my cozy log home working on a

I'm sitting here in my cozy log home working on a talk about beautiful vegetable gardens that are also productive.
What makes a beautiful vegetable garden? The same things we love in ornamental gardens. Symmetry, balance and color are essential to garden design, but also, keeping up with the garden makes a huge difference.
Vegetable gardens can be notoriously messy because they are composed of many annual plants along with some perennials. Annuals are constantly trying to make seeds. From their point of view, that tomato on the vine is surrounding many, many children in the form of seeds. Picking your vegetable garden regularly is very important. In fact, some plants, like green beans and summer squash, quit producing if you don't pick them.
Also, pull out any plants that are past their peak and replace them with another crop. In Oklahoma, we have a very long growing season.
These things and more go into a beautiful vegetable garden. I'll post more ideas later. Hope this helps, and have a great day!
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Just some of the hellebores, Lenten roses, growing

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope all of you are havin

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope all of you are having the best day possible. I'm working on a post on RDR on heart-shaped plants, and our latest @thegardenangelists podcast is all about these tokens of plant love too.

They definitely make people just as happy as red roses, and they last a whole lot longer.
This, if you haven't already seen about fifty of them today, is Hoya kerrii, and it is a cutting, not a full-grown version of this popular plant. Heart-leaf hoya is a wonderful expression of fondness and stinkin' cute. Mine is variegated because you know I especially love variegated plants.
For more info, I’ll see you on the blog, the podcast and here on Instagram my friends!

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Not from this year, but seeing these from February

Not from this year, but seeing these from February two years ago made me want to tell you something.
In Oklahoma where I live, crocus don’t look good planted in a Bermuda lawn because Bermuda looks brown and ugly until way after the crocuses have finished blooming. It’s kind of depressing actually.
If you plant them in your lawn, it needs to be in the shade lawn with grass like fescue.
Or, you can grow them in your flower beds. I do that too.
Another thought...after I planted the crocuses in my lawnette, I began having trouble with voles.
Critters love to eat crocus. I plant more each year to have some flowering. As for the voles, we’ve done various things, but they are hard.
In the first photo is the white crocus, Jeanne d'Arc. The other crocus are varieties of Crocus tommasinianus like Ruby Giant and Barr’s Purple.
I love bulbs!
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Let's talk about flowers to grow from seed. Flower

Let's talk about flowers to grow from seed. Flowers that are easy to sow and grow and help our precious pollinators one-by-one.
Starting with zinnias, those hallmarks of happiness in almost every color in the rainbow. I personally like the Oklahoma series of zinnias that has now been color separated. You can grow any favorite color in this group, and they are mildew resistant. I personally like Oklahoma Salmon in the first photo and Oklahoma Carmine best of all.
Next sunflowers shown in the following photos. Just place seeds in the ground after our last frost. You'll soon see sprouts. Protect them from caterpillars and you will soon have flowers. I often tear off a leaf full of caterpillars and place it on Goldsturm rudbeckia that can outgrow anything.
Choose blooms with an open flower habit so that pollinators can dip themselves down inside.
On @thegardenangelists podcast episode this week we talk about flowers you can sow outside.
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Snow day in Oklahoma! So beautiful and fun. So qui

Snow day in Oklahoma! So beautiful and fun. So quiet.
We probably got three inches in Logan County.
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Why am I showing you a photo of my back garden in

Why am I showing you a photo of my back garden in September? Because, planning for a three or four-season garden starts now.
If you want native plants for your garden, or roses, or any number of things, you need to order seeds and make a list of plants you want now. I used to be guilty of going to the nursery and just picking whatever was in flower, but like Maya Angelou said, "I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better." In this border, there is autumnal sneezeweed, a plant beloved by pollinators, but not often sold in the nurseries. That's because people in the central U.S. buy most of their plants in April and May before it gets too hot, and we all go to the nursery or the box stores and get overwhelmed by pretty.
If you want a four-season garden, you may need to shop local plant sales or order online to get what you want so that you can have a beautiful and productive garden in September too.
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A little love for flowers grown from seed. Rubenz

A little love for flowers grown from seed.
Rubenza cosmos, zinnias, and a bevy of sunflowers.
All of these grew in my garden and were sown directly into the Oklahoma soil.
Gardening couldn’t be easier, and flowers grown from seed love pollinators.
Don’t forget to buy some flower seeds and grow them. You can have a beautiful garden just from these. If you’re a vegetables-only gardener, please grow a few flowers for the butterflies, bees and birds too.
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This is off-topic and not a gardening post, but I’ve been thinking today about how our time on Earth is short, and how no one knows how long they have. Everyone is sad about the helicopter crash that took nine people way too soon. Famous or not, nine people died, and their families and friends are so sad.

I guess I'm not surprised by sudden death anymore. I lost my sister-in-law and brother-in-law at very young ages. I was 34. They were 34 and 39 respectively. It changed my perspective.

So, invite people over and share a meal with them. Use your pretty things now if you have them. Buy cut flowers from the grocery store anytime you want, and in season, grow flowers for yourself and for the pollinators. A package of zinnia seeds is cheap.

We had friends over Monday night, and it was splendid fun. If I have you over and cook you a meal, I hope you know I love and care for you. Hospitality is something we should all do more of whether we eat off paper plates or fine china. But, if you have it, use it. Don't save it for "good." I got my Rosepoint silver and glassware for our 25th wedding anniversary, and I'm so glad we bought it on @ebay. We bought my Schumann Bavaria Platinum Elegance porcelain from a local antique store the same year. It was cheap because people don't seem to care about pretty dishes anymore.
As I wash these items and put them away, I think about our friends and family and what they mean to us. Then, I say a little prayer for all of them.

This May, Bill and I will celebrate 32 years of marriage. Not all of us are so blessed. Go hug someone today. Buy them a coffee. Let others know you care.
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All of our beautiful Cardinals sitting in the Amer

All of our beautiful Cardinals sitting in the American wisteria and flocking to the bird feeder in the rain.
We are so grateful for the rain in Oklahoma in January. It is one of our driest months. I bet by this time tomorrow I will have two inches in my rain gauge.

@potagerblog and I were going to lunch today, but we both decided to stay inside where it’s warm and cozy.

I just brewed a pot of tea, and I’m gonna sit down and read a book today.

#Goals
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Hippeastrum 'Grand Diva' is a tall drink of water,

Cleaned out my greenhouse just in time to start a

Cleaned out my greenhouse just in time to start a few seeds. I also put a few of my orchids out here to wait for rebloom. Normally, I’d have tons of coleus cuttings, but i didn’t take any last fall. I went to Yellowstone instead. 🤷‍♀️ Some of my succulents rest out here in winter too. String of hearts, string of pearls and string of bananas all hanging out.
Only 36 days until spring. Thank goodness!
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One of my favorite views of my back garden in the

One of my favorite British gardens we visited whil

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