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Recent Blog Posts From May Dreams Gardens
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – November 2025
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for November 2025. If I didn’t have the Christmas roses, Helleborus niger, blooming now, this would be a pretty short post. But who am I kidding? It’s still going to be a pretty short post because here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we’ve already […]
Garden Faires Discuss Early Snow
Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies, and to say that we were displeased by the early snowfall this week would be a correct statement! But we were not distressed about it because we had been working very hard to get Carol to get things put away since it was already November, and that is […]
Overheard in a Flower Garden: Talking Flowers
Once upon a time, I bought a scented geranium, potted it up, and put it outside with other geraniums in a little theater set up. (Pelargoniums, actually, but you know what flower I’m talking about.) That little scented geranium was near the bottom of the theater, and quite frankly, wasn’t doing that well. One day, […]
Check Out My Books
I’ve written five books of humorous gardening advice, guaranteed to make you smile and provide some good gardening advice. Check out one or all five!
Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life
Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life
Seeded and Sodded: Thoughts From a Gardening Life
Creatures and Critters: Who’s In My Garden
Digging and Delighted: Live Your Best Gardening Life
And I’ve written two children’s books, both illustrated by my nephew. If you know a kid or were once a kid, you need both!
The Christmas Cottontail: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages
The Halloween Hare: A Story for Gardeners of All Ages
Will I write more books? Seeds have been planted, shoots are coming up. We shall see!