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Recent Blog Posts From May Dreams Gardens

A Loose Brick Leads To a Big Discovery!
I almost got kicked out of the Spinstercore Gardening Club! (If you haven’t heard about Spinstercore Gardening, check out this post.) For those who didn’t want to check out that post, here’s the short version of what Spinstercore Gardening is: Combine Cottagecore and Grandmacore with Gardening, but not just any gardening, gardening by hiring out […]

Garden Fairies Have Quite a Month, So Far
By Carol 4 Comments
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are posting on this blog in the middle of the week because we have a story to tell you. It’s quite the tale, and before you get all nervous and worried about it ending with a thud, let us assure that it has a happy ending. […]

Beginning My Spinstercore Gardening Era
By Carol 9 Comments
Next week, a landscaper and his crew will be coming to my garden to straighten up the edging around the beds in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral, put down a proper landscape fabric in the paths (the only place I’d use landscape fabric), and then put down a good, walkable, mulch in those paths. Then they’ll […]

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!
If you want to contact me by email…
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