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Recent Blog Posts From May Dreams Gardens
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – April 2025
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for April 2025. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I would describe our spring so far as “slow with wild storms mixed in.” We’ve had just one or two days I would consider warm. The remaining days have forced me to continue to wear […]
The Garden Fairies Discuss Spring Songs
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we would like to state right from the beginning that we did not teach the birds to call out “weirdo, weirdo, weirdo” when Carol stepped out into the garden the other morning. But we did think it was hilarious when they did, and goodness, if you could […]
Mysterious Flower Announcement
The bulging bookshelves in my home library provide proof that, indeed, I seldom turn away the opportunity to acquire an old gardening book. Occasionally, those old books have some interesting bits of paper stuck between two pages, sometimes appearing to be randomly placed, sometimes seeming to be more deliberately inserted. I’ve found postcards, letters, grocery […]
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!