Sandy's Garden

Well, here is where I lose all credibility as a gardener because I am going to tell you about the most spectacular red climbing rose that I used to grow and you will see how heavy-handed and hard-hearted I am in the garden! I’m talking about ‘Dortmund’ and its bright red, white eyed three […]

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I always remember two small boys playing in piles of rose petals when I think about the climbing rose ‘Golden Showers’. I grew its golden yellow flowers on a chain link fence in my backyard years ago until the old, bent rusty fence was replaced with a tall wooden fence that didn’t allow enough […]

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I’d like to post about some of the roses that I have grown over the years but first I will discuss my rose philosophy. Yep, stop rolling your eyes, that’s right, I do have a rose philosophy!
Here it is. Number one: I think when people decide to grow roses they make their first […]

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I’d like to write a post now about one of my favorite plants called Anemone ‘September Charm’. It’s also called Windflower or Japanese Anemone. I have several large clumps of ‘September Charm’ growing in my garden. It grows in zones 5 to 8 in sun to part sun and organic soil.
It has […]

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Our trees here in Buffalo, have been devastated by a freak October snow storm that covered them in heavy wet snow. The weight pulled branches and whole trees to the ground. Many, many of our trees have been killed and many more severely injured. It is heartbreaking and unsettling to see the results […]

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Just a quick post about cocoa bean mulch (cocoa shells) which in a strange way connects my work (chocolate) and my favorite hobby (gardening). First of all it benefits a garden greatly if the soil around plants is covered with a mulch of some kind. I think of mulches as being organic material such as […]

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