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Recent Blog Posts From May Dreams Gardens
An Assault on My Floral Sensibilities
I never expected when I walked into the grocery store today that I would have my floral sensibilities assaulted, but here we are. I saw tulips for sale in October. I repeat. I saw tulips for sale in October. Yes, those are tulips, those quintessential SPRING flowers, for sale in the fall with mums behind […]
Garden Fairies Are Busy in the Fall
Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and we see that Carol has not posted on this blog for well over a week so we are garden fairies, we are going to save this blog once again from disappearing into the internet the way a leaf disappears in a compost bin and becomes something unrecognizable. […]
Twenty Years of Blogging
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Today is the 20th anniversary of my starting this blog. That’s right, the first post was September 27, 2004. Just so you don’t have to click down through all the posts of the last 20 years to read that first post, I’ve copied it here. My First Blog Post September 27, 2004 “I’ve just resurrected […]
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!
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Thank You for Visiting My Website and Blog
I hope you’ve enjoyed your time here and found a few seeds of joy and humor to plant in your garden!
If you’re looking for the Lost Ladies of Garden Writing (and you should be), I write about them on Substack.
Or maybe you are fondly recalling the days when I posted all of my grandmother’s diaries from the 1920’s online and wondering if they are still there? They are, at least for now.
Or where did that hoe collection go? It’s here, but not well-formatted or quite up to date.
Wait! I know why you are here… you heard about the secret page of information that could change your gardening life!
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