I bought a gardening book well used, another copy of A Southern Garden by Elizabeth Lawrence (1942). I am quite aware that my frozen garden in Indiana is not in the middle south, where Elizabeth …
Garden Fairies Save This Blog
The rabbit is watching & waiting. Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we have been watching this blog, waiting for a new post. Waiting. And waiting. And waiting some more. Finally, …
Down the rabbit hole, again
More Lily of the Valley I've gone down into another rabbit hole of old gardening books. Down in this particular rabbit hole, I've been following one trail and then another, sometimes retracing steps …
The Story of Compost
I feel obligated to tell the story of compost in my garden because too often new gardeners read about how to make compost and decide it is too complicated, too advanced for their level of …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – January 2014
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2014. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I had to go inside to find blooms in January. Fortunately, it wasn't that …
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How to turn winter into your favorite gardening season
Yesterday was a lovely day. Bright, sunny, and the temperatures were well above freezing, so most of the snow melted. Inside, the Lily of the Valley are at their peak and seem to taunt the Winter …
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