Every morning for the past three mornings, I've gone out to the garden in the first light of day and found three golden raspberries waiting for me. Each morning, I've picked and …
Two flowers showed up in a garden
Rising up above the foliage of the late blooming perennials of the August Dreams Garden border, two flowers showed up in the garden. The two blooms of Dense Blazing Star, Liatris spicata, looked as …
Garden Design: A Border for One Season
August Dreams Garden in mid-June One of the best decisions I made three years ago when I worked with a garden designer to lay out the garden borders was to plant one border with plants that bloom …
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2013
Triteliea 'Rudy' Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for June 2013. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I followed my usual routine for bloom day and went around the …
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Waiting for fireflies
Evening in the garden She sat in her garden for the first time this season even though there were millions of weeds to pull. She challenged herself to sit quietly until she saw a firefly. Once …
Garden Fairies provide a garden update
Clematis 'Pagoda' Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are providing a garden update today. You know what it means when we take over this blog and provide an update, don't …
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