Comments on: June Envy https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/ Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse. Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:31:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Unknown https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-704 Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:59:29 +0000 #comment-704 Dear Matt,
your blog is really great.
I love all the pictures, especially your little duck with the hat 🙂
I am raising some chicken at my backyard and I got a species (here in Brazil known as Polish Chicken) that seems to have hair in the head. You can google it and find some nice pics. 🙂
I'll keep following your posts and pictures!

gramasnobre.com.br/grama-esmeralda

]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-703 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:52:04 +0000 #comment-703 Hoping this year feels a little less frenetic for you – just re-read your post of 25 May last year. You are right about garden photography, it hides a multitude of 'sins' (aka normality) with clever angles. Put it this way, out of roughly 1250 members of the Rainy Side Gardeners Facebook Group (a Pacific North-West group)only a very few seem to regularly post photographs encompassing grand sweeps of garden! You are not alone … in my mind Facebook should be 'Fakebook' because it presents such a selected unreality.
A fundamental difference though is that you work ten times harder at keeping plants that I hack several feet off every year, such as camellias, to keep them within reasonable bounds. You achieve by dint of hard work, and by comparison we in the Pacific North-West seem complete slackers!
Fundamentally, it is the process that counts. Your fabulous Primula sieboldii seedlings are an example. They wouldn't be as special if you hadn't nurtured them yourself. The fact that you give enough time to write your blog is a tribute to your time management. Hoping you have got those garden chairs set out and fire pit going this year.

]]> By: Anonymous https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-702 Sun, 05 Jun 2016 15:03:56 +0000 #comment-702 Incredibly Beautiful Photos…Flowers, Duck, & Bunnies…ALL Make Me Smile… Thank YOU!!! … 🙂
♡ Kathy ♡

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-701 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:18:42 +0000 #comment-701 In reply to Mlle Paradis.

Thanks! The Nemesia just won't stop, but I think now they are starting to fade a bit more after that last flush of bloom. I still can't get over how well they did as typically they are very challenging to grow here in New England – especially from seed.

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-700 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:17:26 +0000 #comment-700 In reply to Susan in the Pink Hat.

We named the bunny Alopecia, but she died last night, as we expected. Poor thing.

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-699 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:16:04 +0000 #comment-699 In reply to Misti.

I know MIsti – the flooding this year seems like it is worse than other years.

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-698 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:15:30 +0000 #comment-698 In reply to MathewG.

When I stayed at Panayoti's house a couple of years ago when I spoke at the Denver Botanic Gardens, I heard so many hail horror stories from the many gardeners that I met. We get some hail here in New England too, but rarely that large. About 5 years ago though, some quarter-sized hail shredded many of the leaves near our house, but we were on the edge of that storm – still, we have enough damage.

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-697 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:13:21 +0000 #comment-697 In reply to ks.

I know, right? The duck with the hat!

]]> By: Matt Mattus https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-696 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:12:52 +0000 #comment-696 In reply to Nic.

Thanks Nic! Yeah, the Calla lily is kind of special, so I dedicate space for it in the greenhouse each winter.

]]> By: Nic https://gardern.co.za/2016/06/june-envy/#comment-695 Fri, 03 Jun 2016 18:04:02 +0000 #comment-695 Love the calla lily and that two-tone Baptisia!

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