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Recent Blog Posts From May Dreams Gardens
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – July 2025
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for July 2025. Here in my USDA :Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the first zinnia opened up just in time to push aside all other contenders for “feature photo.” Who were the other contenders? We’ll get to them in a minute, after this brief report on the […]
A Few Thoughts on Pelargoniums
I heartily recommend you get yourself some Pelargoniums. Now. Tsk. Tsk. I know what you were thinking as you looked at this photo of my Pelargoniums. You were thinking that I’m growing so many Pelargoniums because I’m getting older. And old people naturally migrate over to Pelargoniums. Not so! Don’t think of Pelargoniums as your […]
Garden Fairies Discuss International Fairy Day
Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and we decided that we should write something and post it on this blog for three reasons. First because if we don’t, what will happen to it? Carol has not posted anything in days and days. Second, if we didn’t post on this blog how would you good […]
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!