I'm Christine and Buying Thyme is my garden design company. I'm currently in the season of growing children and focusing on our own new homestead instead of client work. That's what you will find here.
My goal is to get families back to their roots through learning, in simple terms, so that they can raise the next generation of gardeners & gain independence from the consumerism side of gardening. Buying Thyme supports DIY’rs and those willing to get actively involved in nature through how-to’s and simple, low-cost garden projects. Gardening, flowers and edible, was around long before all the fancy gadgets of today and I look forward to showing how little stuff you need to buy.
My garden designs create interactive and educational spaces to enjoy the family, with biodiversity to better your patch of this planet . The designs follow a regenerative approach to gardening, with a focus on supporting the ecosystem through soil health, native plant selection, & ease of ongoing maintenance.
It should probably be noted that the particular seeds you harvested in this video are not viable seeds that will grow. They have to be fertilized and have a mature head at the end of the fuzzy tail.
My plant came in very light purple colored this year & now is all white. Last year it was very dark purple. Will this ever come back to the true color?
1 MORE THING. TRY NO TTO BUY BULBS FROM HOME DEPOT WALMART ETC. THEY DONT SEEM TO EVER COME BACK :-( GET BULBS FROM HOLLAND. OR MICHIGAN BULB COMPANY =BECKS JUST TRUST. I DID . MY HOME WORK :/ LOVE YOUR GRANDMOM
I NEVER. BUY ANY FLOWERS. THAT DO NOT. HAVE BULBS. MY FAVE. IS YUMMY-SMELLY BIG PINK AND WHITE AND OTHER COLORS. "" STAR GAZER LILIES."" OR BEARDED IRIS. DIVIDE EVERY 3 YEARS.
Great video! Have 5 rain gardens on our property and love your LID concept. Didn’t know the term but it’s how I did our gardens. We not only keep all rain water on our property, we retrieve it from roadside runoff heading towards the drain and lots from our neighbor’s large driveway and house roof. Our native plants are thriving. Thx for encouraging good stewardship!
Many Thanks, I never would have thought to drill holes near the tops of the branches to make wrapping the rope around much more stable. "Rabbit Deterrent Teepees" coming up, using very thorny mesquite branches to keep those adorable 🐇 rodents from eating all of my spring plantings. I will place more thorny branches around the bases of the teepees also. 👍🧓
I do not consider Sorbus decora to be native to southern Ontario. There is legend of one growing in a valley in Burlington, but it is surely gone by now. Also, it is not susceptible to Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) because it is not a true ash. Platanus occidentalis is most definitely not commonly know as the London Plane Tree: that would be Platanus × acerifolia. The two trees have very different cultural demands. Quercus palustris is not hardy to zone 1a. Farrar (1994) suggests that it is hardy to Canadian hardiness zone 4 (USDA sone 4). Given that its distribution in Canada is limited to the Carolinian zone, I would suggest that zone 4 is rather optimistic. Cercis canadensis is not known for hot pink blooms, with the exception of the cultivars "Appalachian Red" or "Tennessee Pink." The species and most selections have purplish red flowers. Thanks for the video!
Hahahaha my first thought too. But if I burn it, and there are other hornworms, now I’ve removed the natural pest control and they win 😉 sometimes doing nothing is doing something.
Thanks for this video, its given me a little bit of hope, and all that you said makes total sense. Im in Ontario as well, and I'm not sure how old our tree is, but bought from a small nursery, its about 5' tall. It looked really sad last year, and lost lots of its leaves earlier than the other trees near by in the fall. We were holding our breath for spring to see if it would survive the winter. And its alive, but very sad looking. 1/2 the tree didn't have buds, I think some branches might be dead (will need to do the scratch test this weekend). The other half had some little sparse buds a few weeks ago, and now are starting to push the leaves (on the branches that had buds). Watching this video has given me hope. But not sure if next year the tree will be better. I hope we won't have to pull it out. We don't have it as a under clerestory tree. Its kinda by itself in a very sunny spot. Not sure if thats a contributing factor!
The color difference has also happened to me. We planted some purple Spanish lavender plants. Over the years, baby plants spouted from the seeds where the flowers look white instead of purple. There was another plant that became violet.
