If Plants Could Walk
Escaping the Weather by Sandy Swegel They’d run for their lives! This week anyway. Extreme weather conditions prevail here in Colorado and throughout the country. Here in Boulder, we’re enduring day after day of record-setting temps over 100. Plants are crisping just from the 4% humidity. And as we learned in our last severe drought […]
Survive the Heat
Help Your Plants Escape the Heat by Sandy Swegel It’s hot hot hot here in Colorado and to make it worse, smoke from the wildfires out of control has caused local authorities to issue “stay indoors” advisories. We’re all suffering, plants especially since they can’t get up and come inside away from the heat and particulate […]
Playing with Flowers
Bring Them Inside for a Visit by Sandy Swegel Even though I don’t have a cutting garden, I love to bring flowers into the house, especially delicate fragile ones that can disappear in a formal arrangement. This morning on a walk through an abandoned lot, I saw some pretty blue flax. I snipped them and a […]