Comments on: Marching into the Garden with Signs of Early Spring

By: @cavershamjj

@cavershamjj — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 20:59:25 +0000

That sounds like a big flower show! Good to get some ideas.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:50:56 +0000

Bittercress (which auto corrected to buttercream for some reason) is the most common weed in my garden. Some very nice displays at that flower show and some Muscari!

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 21:28:34 +0000

Your weed is very similar to one of our commonest, but maybe not the same. We call it bittercress. I have grudgingly admired it for surviving in the worst of conditions, then flowering and seeding when it’s about half an inch high and wide. There’s a perennial form of it from New Zealand we get occasionally that has fine but strong roots and is much harder to get out.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 18:09:13 +0000

The weed you have shown is the worst of my garden. It spreads so quickly! Fortunately easy to remove but you have to do it just before flowering.
Thank you for sharing these photos of the Philadelphia Flower Show. It must have been wonderful. ( I fell in love with these pale muscari, not seen here yet…)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 18:03:01 +0000

Weeds have some of the prettiest flowers!
Berggarten Salvia is a type of common garden sage, the kind you eat. It rarely blooms. I find sage plants pretty in their own right, and have several in my herb garden. I save the ornamental salvias for the flower beds. Usually “salvia” is used for the flowering type, and “sage” for the culinary. Berggarten Salvia is culinary.