Comments on: FROM ARCTIC VORTEX – TO ROBINS https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/ Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:55:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2063 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:47:18 +0000 #comment-2063 This winter more than most made me want a greenhouse.

]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2062 Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:00:33 +0000 #comment-2062 Obconica 99 cents at Wegmans here—didn't sell I guess

]]> By: nanne https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2061 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 03:11:26 +0000 #comment-2061 In reply to nanne.

instagram is fun & easy! do it :)!

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2060 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:41:22 +0000 #comment-2060 In reply to nanne.

The trick is to try and get to them in the late summer before the jays, squirrels and other birds do. But if you can get that far, you're pretty much in fair weather!

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2059 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:40:09 +0000 #comment-2059 In reply to nanne.

OK< I know, I really need to get on Instagram, but like Tumbler, I like to share more than just photos. I promise I will look into it!

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2058 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:38:50 +0000 #comment-2058 In reply to Mlle Paradis.

Thanks Mlle Paradis! Always great to hear from you. Hope gardens are going well!

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2057 Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:37:56 +0000 #comment-2057 I hope you try some camellias. Here in New England, they are impossible to grow outdoors or in heated homes, but really, they thrive in a glassed in unheated porch, even if it freezes. I have a few friends who grow them very well in large containers that they winter over on a glassed in front porch ( hint: it's how many grew them in the old days!). They may not be hardy here, but they do make nice winter and spring specimens in containers. I have a large glassed in front porch that freezes, but doesn't drop much below 18 degrees F., so I will try a few next year.

]]> By: Nic https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2056 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:16:32 +0000 #comment-2056 Your camellias are just stunning! I went to the Lyman Estate greenhouses yesterday for a little jolt of color and fragrance and ended up coming away with two little cuttings for my own sun room, as well as a few other treasures. Hopefully I will get the hang of growing them as a container plant – the last time I planted camellias was at my childhood home in southern Germany, and there they are all but carefree outdoor shrubs. One of the ones I planted when I was in elementary school is all but taking over a part of our old garden now.

]]> By: Mlle Paradis https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2055 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:30:49 +0000 #comment-2055 glorious posts recently! hard to say which i liked better, the birds, or the flowers. it is the fleetingness of all these things somehow that can make you appreciate them more, i've always thought. all the little miracles…..thanks for this little burst of beauty.

]]> By: nanne https://gardern.co.za/2014/01/hints-of-spring-arrive/#comment-2054 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 03:34:53 +0000 #comment-2054 p.s. are you on instagram? would love to follow growing with plants there if so.

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