Bloom Varieties Blooms

Evening Primroses

The Showy Pink Primrose is a perennial that has a pale pink flower and a pale yellow middle.   It really isn’t a rose, but it looks nice around my rose bush!  The butterflies and hummingbirds really love this flower too.   Once the plant is established, it will tolerate drier conditions. I planted it […]

Recipes

Salad Dressing with Garlic Scapes

Since this was the first year that I harvested garlic scapes, I decided to search for some recipes.  I found one for salad dressing.   Now this recipe called for 4 tablespoons of red wine vinegar which I thought was a bit overpowering so I toned it down and added fresh parmesan cheese – all […]

Vegetables

Harvesting Garlic Scapes

As you may recall, I planted my garlic last October, now here is what the plants look like as of today. The hardnecks will produce a flower stem that will loop around once or twice before straightening out which is called a scape.   While it looks really cool, you should cut the flower stem […]