Comments on: Feeling the pinch http://blog.blithewold.org/greenhouse/feeling-the-pinch/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:23:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pat Carlson http://blog.blithewold.org/greenhouse/feeling-the-pinch/comment-page-1/#comment-16880 Pat Carlson Wed, 23 May 2012 12:50:18 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=6749#comment-16880 I am a fan of Tracy Sabato-Austs's book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, which recommends pinching and which have photos to remind me of the benefits. The hardest ones for me to do are the fall-blooming sedums. They look so awful at first after being cut back. But it keeps them from opening up in the center and keeling over later. <em>Pat, I think that might be the best book ever on perennial gardening! And I know what you mean about the sedums but what a difference a trim makes - I sometimes do those a few times. -kris</em> I am a fan of Tracy Sabato-Austs’s book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, which recommends pinching and which have photos to remind me of the benefits. The hardest ones for me to do are the fall-blooming sedums. They look so awful at first after being cut back. But it keeps them from opening up in the center and keeling over later.

Pat, I think that might be the best book ever on perennial gardening! And I know what you mean about the sedums but what a difference a trim makes – I sometimes do those a few times. -kris

]]> By: Jean http://blog.blithewold.org/greenhouse/feeling-the-pinch/comment-page-1/#comment-16862 Jean Tue, 22 May 2012 15:00:41 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=6749#comment-16862 Bought some tiny verbascum plants for the first time ever, and saw a most perfect little spire of flowers forming ,but I ...drew my breath,and drew my sword, and...,well, you know!. I've been dubbing myself "Whacko" lately. My gardening friend ,who is a psych nurse as well, prefers"Whacky",but to me it lacks the punch of the former! <em>Jean, Whacko and Whacky are totally different. I think I'm a whacko too... or maybe a whacky whacko sometimes. -kris </em> Bought some tiny verbascum plants for the first time ever, and saw a most perfect little spire of flowers forming ,but I …drew my breath,and drew my sword, and…,well, you know!. I’ve been dubbing myself “Whacko” lately. My gardening friend ,who is a psych nurse as well, prefers”Whacky”,but to me it lacks the punch of the former!

Jean, Whacko and Whacky are totally different. I think I’m a whacko too… or maybe a whacky whacko sometimes. -kris

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