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.
Take an interactive tour of the gardens showing in Anchorage's garden tour, with photos and audio commentary from each gardener.
Deadheading and seed collecting
Harvesting herbs from your garden
Municipal Greenhouse Gardeners
Alaska Society of Outdoor and Nature Photographers
Alaska Plant Materials Center:
Fairbanks Georgeson Botanical Garden
Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge
Pyrahs Pioneer Peak U-Pick Farm
South Anchorage Farmers Market
December Garden Calendar - 11/30/2008 4:39 pm
Thanks - 11/26/2008 9:50 am
Greenhouse, nursery and peony conferences coming in January - 11/24/2008 6:20 pm
About Garden Design - 11/23/2008 4:15 pm
50 Years of Statehood - 11/19/2008 3:26 pm
Try pinwheels for moose defense - 11/18/2008 3:38 pm
Harvest bark responsibly - 11/16/2008 2:52 pm
Have a healthy winter - 11/13/2008 3:09 pm
Bits of this and that - 11/10/2008 8:04 pm
Garden grant money available for 2009 - 11/10/2008 4:00 pm
How did your garden grow? - 11/9/2008 4:28 pm
Snow Makes Sprouts Sweeter - 11/4/2008 3:59 pm
Separated at birth? - 11/2/2008 11:21 am
November Garden Calendar - 10/30/2008 12:06 pm
Valley Apple Guy - 10/28/2008 11:47 am
One more weekend to prepare - 10/27/2008 11:06 am
Autumn elsewhere - 10/23/2008 11:02 am
Apples again on Thursday - 10/21/2008 8:46 am
Season of the Larch - 10/19/2008 6:34 pm
The winter of late flowers - 10/15/2008 3:55 pm
We missed you! - 10/12/2008 5:25 pm
A summer of luck - 10/9/2008 2:40 pm
Posted: August 19, 2008 - 9:30 am
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Verbascum chaixii 'Alba'and an unknown poppy from donated seeds. Photo by Fran Durner
Wish enthusiastic gardener and devoted arborist Nickel LaFleur a Happy Birthday! Nickel dear, here are some flowers for you!
Lauren's Grape poppy. Photo by Fran Durner
Hope your day is filled with sun, perfume and music from a hundred floral notes.
Iris pseudocorus also known as yellow flag. Photo by Fran Durner
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1 August 20, 2008 - 9:13am | tagalak
Oh thank you.
Fran, The birthday wish and photos are great! Here's hoping the Alaska State Fair has some nice weather for the festivities...... See you there; a year older, Nickel
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