I know a group of women who love amaryllis. Every year about this time, they all order a few, and begin watering them. These women are all retired, and live at a place called Windfield, which boldly calls itself “Senior Estates” on the pretty carved sign outside.
These senior estates are really lovely apartments in Hadley, Massachusettes. [...]
Our Fall Bulb Clearance is in full swing, and soon all the daffodils and tulips and lilies will be gone. If you can still plant, this is the time for fall’s biggest bargains. Come get ‘em while they last.
Did you know that daffodils are still common in the wild? Well, the ancestral home of many favorite daffodil species is the Ukraine, and a famous valley there has been protected. This is the homeland of the very famous “Poet’s Daffodil”, sometimes called “Old Pheasant’s Eye”. A newer version of it is “Actaea.” It’s most [...]
If you haven’t already, it’s time to mow. The later you wait, the more ripened seeds your mowing will “plant” from the late wildflowers, such as wild sunflowers and the native asters. Of course, the later you mow, the more rotten the weather. But fall mowing is important, since it efficiently removes brush and flails [...]
It’s fall, and all gardeners are thinking about bulbs. We have a wonderful selection at AmericanMeadows.com, but if you’re anything like me, you are clicking around and fascinated by all the photos. If you don’t, you should know about Old House Gardens, a fantastic site devoted to “heirloom” plants and bulbs. At this time of [...]
All wildflower gardeners know that every flower is wild somewhere. The same is true of tulips and daffodils, and we’ve gathered many of the wild or “species” bulbs in our collection of fall bulbs, now for sale at AmericanMeadows.com.
It’s here. The month that is great for putting in a meadow in almost every state and province. October marks the beginning of planting time in most of California. It’s the best time for people in South Florida to plant wild annuals for winter bloom. And in the entire east and midwest, it’s time for [...]
We just arranged to have four of the most famous “species tulips” in our Fall Bulb Sale, ongoing now on the website. Most gardeners don’t know that the original tulips, the wildflowers of the bunch, are small little gems that occur naturally in Central Asia, all the way from Iran into eastern Europe. And wild [...]
