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Plant Profiel: Bee Balm
23 Jul 2021

Plant Profiel: Bee Balm

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Plant Profiles, The Garden 2021 | 2

If you want a sweet smelling plant that will attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden you should have some bee balm.  These plants thrive in the sun and will happily spread fairly quickly to give you a lovely … Continued

B, bee balm, garden journal 2021
What’s in the Garden? – B
16 Jul 2019

What’s in the Garden? – B

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Alphabetical Gardening | 12

The garden tour this week shares what’s in the garden starting with B. One of my favourite spring blooms are the bleeding hearts.  This perennial plant loves the shady north facing gardens.  The plants get very big and are covered … Continued

B, bluejays, bottle tree, garden bling
Purple Hyacinth Beans
20 Mar 2016

Purple Hyacinth Beans

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Plant Profiles, Seeds, Vegetables | 1

Purple hyacinth beans or lablab purpureus. This is an ornamental, annual vine that I grow for the lovely flowers and coloured beans. Plants like full sun and will grow well on a south facing wall.  Soil should have good drainage. The … Continued

B, beans, hyacinth bean vine, Tom
How Do Bottomless Pots Work?
19 Jan 2016

How Do Bottomless Pots Work?

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Garden Projects, Vegetables | 11

How do you grow plants in the garden where the soil is so compacted or rocky that it is hard to grow anything there? I tried using bottomless pots like mini raised gardens which allowed me to fill the pot with good soil … Continued

B, beans, bottomless pots, morning glory
Converted to a Bottle Tree
18 Jan 2015

Converted to a Bottle Tree

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Garden Projects, Whimsy | 0

One of the garden projects last year was to create a bottle tree using an old lilac bush that for some reason stopped growing.  The branches got trimmed back so they would hold the coloured bottles.

B, bottle tree
It’s “Bean” a Lilac Bush …
17 Jun 2014

It’s “Bean” a Lilac Bush …

by Crafty Gardener | posted in: Vegetables, Whimsy | 0

… and now it’s a bottle tree bean support!   One of the lilac bushes didn’t survive the winter and even though I talked nicely to it, trimmed off some broken bits it still didn’t give off any buds.  So … Continued

B, beans, bottle tree

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