Dee A. Nash's Blog, page 16
February 22, 2019
Grow kale and make kale chips
Winter is nearly over in Oklahoma. Sure, it will blast a bit more and make us all shiver, but the days are getting longer. Time to think about the early spring garden. Next week, I’ll sow seeds all kinds of cold-weather veggies including kale. We know we’re supposed to eat more of this delicious vegetable,...
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February 10, 2019
Of hyacinth bulbs and rats
For those who read this blog regularly, you know I often force bulbs in winter to keep my gardening chops alive and kicking. Who am I kidding? I start bulbs in winter to keep from losing my ever-loving mind. Most of January 2019, was cloudy, and February started out the same with the addition of...
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January 23, 2019
In the garden of my mind
At night when I can’t sleep, I engage in a bit of garden dreaming. Instead of counting sheep, I wander through the everlasting garden in my mind. While meandering, I push away thoughts of garden work because just the images of all I need to do in spring might keep me up all night. This is...
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January 1, 2019
Random New Year’s thoughts
It’s the New Year, and while I’m excited and grateful about a new page turning, I’m also sad because today is the first anniversary of my sister’s death. Over the holidays, I’ve been thinking about a lot of things, about how life is measured in its smaller moments. Better writers than I have pondered these...
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December 13, 2018
How to grow amaryllis and paperwhites indoors
I grow a variety of flower bulbs indoors, but my favorites in December and January are amaryllis (Hippeastrum sp.) and paperwhites (Narcissus tazetta.) After all, it’s always been my contention on this blog that blooming plants beat the winter blues. Some bulbs, like hyacinths and tulips, need a cooling period before you can coax them into...
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December 2, 2018
The garden moved indoors
In the last couple of weeks, Jack Frost visited Oklahoma so the garden moved indoors. I find that growing bulbs indoors helps me endure winter’s darkest days. Although most of October and November were mild, we have many more cold days to come. Hyacinth bulbs are cooling their heels in the garage refrigerator. In Oklahoma’s...
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October 24, 2018
Glorious grasses
Before settlers crossed the Mississippi River and literally ran for 160-acre plots in one of several Oklahoma land runs in the late 1800s, much of the territory’s western half was covered in mixed prairie grasses. In what became Oklahoma Territory, the Osage, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache tribes hunted bison and other animals. Oklahoma’s diverse landscape,...
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October 10, 2018
‘Bluebird’ smooth aster
Another great plant group for the fall garden is the asters, and the best of these is ‘Bluebird’ smooth aster. I have many asters , and I’ve profiled them before, but Symphyotrichum laeve ‘Bluebird’ is my hands-down favorite and seems to be a favorite of bees, hoverflies, wasps, and butterflies too. This fantastic plant is such a beautiful clear...
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October 6, 2018
Pink muhly grass in Oklahoma
Pink muhly grass is the big star this week in my Little Cedar Garden. My five plants have finally grown into their adult form. It’s been a long time coming–five or six years to get this kind of stand in the front bed. It now stops traffic on our rural road. We don’t get that much...
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September 22, 2018
Yorkshire Garden Trip: Low Hall Garden
Since it’s the weekend, let’s do some armchair garden travel and return to an English summer in Yorkshire, UK. Grab yourself a cup of something warm or frizzante and follow me. We went to Yorkshire at the end of June. It was a good time to go although they were in the beginning of a...
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