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: October 15, 2008 - 3:55 pm
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Strawflowers still stand upright and retain their color even with a chapeau of snow. Fran Durner/ADNSome flowers don't take to cold kindly. Dahlias go to mush, cosmos resemble dusty spider webs and most flowers just bend over in defeat as soon as the snow flies.
Crabapples are still bright in color and look great on a dull day. Fran Durner/ADNI think most gardeners clean up in the fall mostly because they can't stand to see their once happy plants beaten back and shrivelled up.
Clary sage looks great in the snow. Fran Durner/ADNBut I found a couple of last-standing flowers that still offer some bright spots here and there. Plants to remember and perhaps plant again next year for their hardiness.
Let me know if you have anything that is still looking good in your yard and upload a photo to our garden gallery!!
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