Garden fairy selfie Now, now, the garden fairies in my garden are surely not the only garden fairies taking selfies these days, are they? If yours arent, maybe they'd like to? You can …
Garden Fairies Take a Big Step Forward
Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and we are as excited as the first crocus of spring to announce we have done something that no garden fairy has ever done. We have written a foreword for a …
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Ain’t nobody happy about this cold weather
Hyacinth forced into bloom indoors Ain't nobody happy about this cold weather at the end of March. The pansies on the front porch are shivering but because they are on the south side and partially …
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Go, go, go. Buzz, buzz, buzz.
We could learn a few things from the bees. They were out in full force on Friday, the first full day of spring. They buzzed from hellebores to crocuses and then from crocus to crocus. I'm sure they …
Blue Pigment
Iris reticulata 'Harmony' "Nothing great is of rapid achievement, it must be remembered, and "to make a garden", wrote a Persian poet, is to paint a living picture with the pigments of the Almighty." …
Familiar beginnings
Garden Fairie Selfie #9 I've been sowing peas or helping to sow peas in the early spring in the garden for as long as I can remember. Fifty years, at least. How early I've planted has varied …
