Do you love to make mud pies, grow a houseplant, eat veggies, or stop to smell the bouquet on your co-workers desk? Everyone enjoys a bit of green growing around him or her and then there are those that are passionate and needy when it comes to dabbling in the dirt. With this blog, we'll try to satisfy those needs and tell you about what's going on with the Anchorage gardening scene. You know, as I finally learned, it's all about the dirt.
Photographer and gardener Fran Durner (fdurner@adn.com) writes the blog.
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Ants on the loose - again - 7/9/2008 4:43 pm
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Posted: April 15, 2008 - 4:15 pm
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Gardeners are busy transplanting plugs of flowers at the Municipal Greenhouse. Fran Durner/ADNMunicipal gardeners are busy transplanting plugs of the many beautiful flowers they grow for the gardens around the city.
But here's a little known fact: they don't need all the plants they grow, and the surplus plugs are sold to the public at the Lidia Selkregg Chalet at Russian Jack Springs Park.
Sandi Potvin carries trays of seedlings for sale into the Lidia Selkregg Chalet at Russian Jack Springs Park on Wednesday afternoon. Fran Durner/ADNIndividual plugs are sold for 25 cents each or you can buy whole flats of plugs at $5 for a flat of 24, $10 for 50 plugs, and $20 for the 105 plug flat.
It's catch as catch can. Plants come in sporadically and there isn't always much to choose from. Tuesday, there were a few trays of lobelia, one of Salvia 'Oxford Blue' and a few plugs of waxy begonias.
Plugs should be transplanted into bigger pots as soon as you can do it.
Chalet hours: Monday-Friday 10am to 9pm. Saturday, 9am to 5pm and Sunday from Noon to 5pm. Phone: 343-6992
1 April 16, 2008 - 1:50pm | tamerack
Mary Jane Winn blooming plant?
Can you tell us what that plant is from Mary Jane Winn's garden that you have a picture of in your Spring 2008 Gallery?
Thanks for the plug on the plugs at the Muni Greenhouse!
Tammie S.
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April 19, 2008 - 8:33am | monsen
It is a chionodoxa. It comes in blue, white and pink.
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April 20, 2008 - 11:48am | talkdirt
Thanks Mel! I knew someone would come through and recognize them! Now we can hunt them down in the catalogues and plant them ourselves.
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2 April 16, 2008 - 3:46pm | dghoff
Flowers
The Muni Greenhouse is one of the best programs in Anchorage. The WWII Aleutians Memorial on Merrill Field has been fortunate to display the beautiful flowers for the last few years.
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