Kerry’s Garden

Ouch! This Paul’s Himalayan Musk rose cane and a couple of others just like it have been topped by one of our local, and getting braver by the day, deer. The picture is on the fuzzy side but look at those thorns for goodness sake! They are huge and red to boot. Isn’t red the [...]

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I went out to take some pictures for this post and almost stepped on a little rabbit that ran under my foot as I was walking in the garden. We startled each other I think as he/she quickly ran for cover next to this daylily. Judging by it’s size, I would say this little guy [...]

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This Miss Kim lilac is about 4 or 5 years old. I picked it up at a Kroger and left it in its 3 gallon pot for the first year. The following spring it went into this half barrel and has lived on the back porch ever since. Last year the flowers were all but [...]

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This is the Harison’s Yellow that Eric and I drove up north of Cincinnati to pick up last spring. Check out the thorns. I learned the hard way that this one takes a delicate touch when pruning.

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This is the best they have looked yet. This is from a group that started out as 2 fans I picked up from a plant trade in 2005. I don’t remember his name but there was a gentleman there that had a lot of iris. I picked up 8 total, 2 autumn circus, 2 lumalite, [...]

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Many people are surprised when I tell them I grow kiwi in Kentucky. No, not the fuzzy brown kiwis you can pick up at the local grocery. These are hardy kiwis, specifically Arctic Beauty. They are quite hardy, like the dappled shade and love to climb. A male and a female plant is needed for [...]

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I ordered a new WS-2310TWC weather station from Amazon a couple of days ago. It has a temp/humidity/pressure gauge, a rain gauge and a wind gauge. It will connect to the indoor base unit either via cable or wireless. It comes with software to upload the weather data to your computer and or the internet. [...]

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