Guest Post: Garden Fairies do the Helleborus Hop

Garden fairies here!

Greetings of the seasons from all the garden fairies here at May Dreams Gardens.

You would not believe what has been going on around here. Or rather, you would not believe what has gotten into Carol.

We call it the Helleborus Hysterics. When she saw that Helleborus niger 'Josef Lemper' blooming in her garden outside in December she went off on a tear to find out

Garden fairies explain mystery gladiola

Garden fairies here!

We are garden fairies and you should have seen the look on Carol's face when she saw this white gladiola growing in the middle of Plopper's Field, the garden border where she just plops plants in wherever there is a bare spot.

She looked quite startled when she saw this big glad towering up over some daylilies.  Then she looked puzzled and her brow kind of furrowed a

Spots on Flowers

Canna showing garden fairy footprints

If you do an online search for "spots on flowers", the most common results will lead you to sites telling you about all kinds of plant diseases. Your search may even lead you to sites with information about too much sun causing the flower spots.

To the authors of all those sites, I say well, sure, possibly the spots are caused by diseases, but does my