Janet's Garden

Joyce sent me an email with her solution for killing lily beetles. She says it works on both the adults and the larvae. She takes one cup (250 mL) cooking oil, 1/2 cup (125 mL) Sunlight dish det...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2009/08/another-way-to-get-rid-of-lily-beetles.html

This just in from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: > You find them in hanging flower baskets…an old boot…a garage > shelf…or under a bridge…birds build nests in the st...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2009/06/fun-contest-funky-nests-in-funky-places.html

I'm sorry about the lack of new posts here this year. Between various circumstances in my life and my determination to write a novel, I have not been able to stretch myself far enough to keep up ...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/10/missing-in-action.html

I was hoping not to be able to show you this. But now that I am able, I am obliged. It's that stupid sense of public duty. My lily beetle hunting expeditions were quite successful this year. I m...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/05/gross-picture-warning.html

To the point that I am thinking of digging up my Viburnum opulus roseum. I planted this baby two years ago. Last year it showed every sign of settling in well, despite the attack of the mad arbor...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-hate-my-snowball-bush.html

I was feeling morose a while back. My beautiful Jacob's ladder (the Bressingham Purple) looked deader than a doornail. Polemoniums normally come through the winter with most of their foliage inta...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/05/struggling-up-ladder.html

When I hear the word "squill", it evokes in me images of something vaguely unpleasant, perhaps squirmy and slug-like. Fortunately, the pretty little spring flowers so named are much more pleasant...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/05/squill-and-friends.html

As promised, I am back with a picture of my Daydream tulips once they had faded to apricot. I love the colour, but I was a bit disappointed with how quickly they wilted. On the other hand, th...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/05/tulip-mania.html

I was sitting in the sun yesterday minding my own business, when my eyes strayed to the right and discovered the horror of an alien invasion! A brilliant red exoskeleton, twitching black antennae...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/05/tis-season-to-be-wary.html

I'm going to be gradually adding labels to my old posts. For subscribers to my feed, this means you are going to be seeing old posts coming at you as if they were new. My apologies. On the other ...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/05/technical-stuff.html

And so are most of the plants in my garden, amazingly enough. I owe everybody an apology for not posting earlier. I took on the added task of writing a novel (over 81,000 words at this point) an...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-am-still-alive.html

Well, I did it. I got the last of my spring bulbs into the ground! Tulips and mini daffodils, squills and irises, hyacinths and anemones, crocuses and alliums - when I write the list out I unders...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/11/easier-than-planting-with-shoehorn.html

Join Green Thumb Sunday Palace Purple heuchera still in bloom in October. Previous post on the topic of Heuchera Technorati tag: Heuchera

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/green-thumb-sunday_29.html

In theory, I'm not buying any more plants now, right? I don't have much room, and besides, if I'm going to be moving there just isn't any point, right? Right. Wrong. How could I say no yet agai...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/i-succumbed-to-temptation.html

I wish I could take credit for the little pumpkin, but I can't. Everything else was gathered from the back yard: heuchera and dogwood leaves, pine twigs and cones, and one tiny maple leaf that ha...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/sitting-pretty.html

It's starting to get chilly around here! See how red my cheeks are getting? You've got a nice warm fuzzy sweater, give me a big hug! As you can see, the sundrops turn red at the first light t...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/warm-me-up-wilma.html

Sunset and cat (photo credit to my daughter) First snow (but still no frost!) Previous post on the topic of Green Thumb Sunday Technorati tag: Sunsets , Sedum

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/green-thumb-sunday.html

The weather's fair! The air is warm, the sun is shining! All's right with the world! Seize the day and the trowel and get your procrastinating butt out into the glories of nature and plant all th...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/confessions-of-cranky-gardener.html

The refugees I am harbouring right now are not only in pots. When frost was threatening (an empty threat as it turned out), I ventured forth, clippers in hand, to bring in some of the nicer offer...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/october-bouquet.html

They huddled by the back door, begging for mercy. So I let them in and they are now undergoing the fate of refugees everywhere, jammed together in temporary and inadequate accomodations while the...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/refugees.html

You know what a foundling is, don't you? The whole "abandoned baby on the doorstep" thing? I bet you thought that only happened in 19th-century novels. Well, I'm here to tell you that it still ha...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/foundling.html

GREEN THUMB SUNDAY Unlike other parts of the province, we haven't had a proper frost yet, let alone snow, but we've gotten close enough to inspire different plants to pull on their autumn coats....

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/garden-portraits-for-october-15.html

I have never been a fan of chemical fertilizers, at least not since I stopped to think about it for more than a second or two. Here is part of the reason why . > Dead zones can encompass ar...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/chemical-fertilizers.html

Anybody up for a challenge? How about a Danish gardening blog? At least I think it's Danish. That's my best guess. Or Swedish. Even if you can't read a word of Hagedagbok fra parsellen i Bergen ,...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/venturing-out-into-un-english-waters.html

OK, that's a bit of an exaggeration. But every time I look out my kitchen window, I catch a glimpse of roses, and it provides that little jolt of joy that ensures I will not abandon gardening any...

http://janets-garden.blogspot.com/2006/10/everythings-coming-up-roses.html