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.
Splitting dahlias with Amelia Walsh
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
Fertilizer prices going up - 1/7/2009 4:40 pm
The catalogs are arriving - 1/6/2009 4:33 pm
Q&A with Becky Myrvold - 1/4/2009 6:09 pm
January Garden Calendar - 12/29/2008 5:05 pm
Light up the night with ice - 12/28/2008 7:40 pm
Best slug tip of the year - 12/21/2008 2:41 pm
Make way for ducklings - 12/18/2008 10:00 am
Painting with Ice Fog - 12/16/2008 11:43 am
Christmas in the Tropics - 12/14/2008 5:20 pm
Still Life with Carol Lambert - 12/11/2008 2:02 pm
Holly is a Christmas tradition - 12/9/2008 9:35 am
Gift Book Ideas - 12/7/2008 5:57 pm
Christmas tree time - 12/4/2008 1:30 pm
Splitting dahlias with Amelia Walsh - 12/2/2008 9:53 am
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
Posted: September 4, 2008 - 4:41 pm
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"Garden Tart" Brooke Heppinstall with hubby and "Garden Muscle" Paul Kroenung at the WoolWood Studio and Gardens booth at the Garden and Art Festival at the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer in July. Fran Durner/ADNThis from the original Garden Tart herself, Brooke Heppinstall of WoolWood Gardens: "There's still time to play in the perennial beds and we're having an End of Summer Sale! Lilacs, roses, herbaceous hardy Alaska grown perennials, houseplants, garden art, trellises, birdhouses, Garden Tart teeshirts. Our plants need a happy home and there's plenty of time left to garden. I hope you'll all stop by this Saturday for the end of summer sale!"
The nursery will be open Saturday, Sept. 6, 12 - 6 pm. Directions: Take the Old Glenn out of Palmer toward the Butte. Turn LEFT on Clark-Wolverine. Turn RIGHT at the "T" onto Huntley. Turn LEFT onto Apollo, LEFT onto Jupiter, then watch on the RIGHT for the WoolWood sign.
Happy gardening! Brooke Heppinstall. 746-3606 or woolwood@mtaonline.net
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