Month: March 2017

Salvias, six months on

Stephen Carlin

Six months after buying my first serious lot of salvias, they are looking great. They have flowered through an unusually harsh summer with some weeding and a few waterings to keep them from wilting. On the back of that success I have recently acquired another 26 to expand the collection. The first twelve When I first decided to try salvias it was hard to know which ones to order. Fortunately Sue Templeton at Unlimited Perennials offers sets of 12 of her choice which she selects for your conditions, so I…

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Choosing a (working) dog

billdunk@me.com

When we moved here, one of the attractive aspects of life away from the city was to have a dog. I’d had dogs most of my life, but since we had been living in an apartment with lots of restrictions on pets, we had gone a number of years without one. Choosing a dog breed Our original plan was to adopt a rescue dog, but most of the advice pointed to a high chicken death toll from an adult rescue dog (there are rarely pups available for rescue from our local pound). We…

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