Cold Climate Gardening » Acquisitions

Tired of forcing the same bulbs every winter? Let me introduce you to the Madeiran squill. Click to learn more:

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2021/02/12/my-new-fave-winter-bloomer/

Take a stroll with me through the Secret Garden and admire the flowers I recently planted to make this garden even more beautiful. I hope it delights you as much as it delights me!

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2017/05/15/new-plants-for-the-secret-garden-garden-bloggers-bloom-day-may-2017/

I have lots of spring flowers blooming in my garden, but I’ve posted pictures of most of them in previous years. However, I have many daffodils that are new this year or at least blooming for t...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2016/05/15/new-daffodils-garden-bloggers-bloom-day-may-2016/

Ever since I realized that the National Weather Service at our local airport under-reported both the lows and the highs at our first house, ever since I discovered we were a lot more likely to ha...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2015/04/23/a-dream-come-true-my-new-weather-station/

Thirty-seven days after I planted it, the ‘White Nymph’ amaryllis from Longfield Gardens is blooming. I was surprised to see how fast it grew. I like the pink flush on the tips of the petals,...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2014/12/15/amaryllis-and-orchids-for-garden-bloggers-bloom-day-december-2014/

February daphne (Daphne mezereum) is blooming now for me–before the forsythia, before any rhodos, before my spicebush. My February daphne is still a baby, given to me by Deborah Banks when I vi...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2014/04/25/you-need-february-daphne-in-your-early-spring-garden/

This is my first year growing the elusive but hardy spring snowflake. I have taken contributor Brian Bixley’s admonishment to heart and I’m trying to get more early blooming plants in my gard...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2013/04/12/spring-snowflake-leucojum-vernum/

We. Are. MOVING!!! After 21 years, 9 months, 11 days* in the same location, Purdyville is relocating twenty minutes further out to the middle of nowhere. We are just about doubling our floor spac...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2011/09/05/new-gardens-for-cold-climate-gardening/

I have long wished to add some seating to the Secret Garden, but not any old bench would do. It had to be durable and it had to fit in with the whole idea of a Secret Garden. This branches bench ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2010/04/21/branches-bench-in-the-secret-garden/

Spring: when a gardener wonders which of last year’s new plants made it through the winter. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote down a list of things I had planted last year but hadn’t seen make a...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2009/05/08/did-my-plant-make-it-through-the-winter/