It was Liberty Hyde Bailey who wrote in The Gardener (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925), "Gardening is more than the growing of plants: it is the expression of desire." What do we desire from …
Shopping like it’s 1931
I ordered a special garden catalog a few weeks ago, one that would take me to a place and time I'd never been before - 1931. You can turn to any page in this catalog,"Dreer's Garden Book 1931", and …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: February 2013
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for February 2013. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, winter continues. It seems at times like a roller coaster ride that goes up and …
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine's Day Tip of the hoe to Kylee at Our Little Acre for sending me this card last spring. She saw the hoe and thought of me! Everything "hoe" -- that's me! …
Garden fairies don’t know what to take
Dill flowers are a favorite of the garden fairies. Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we do not know whether we should take umbrage or take cover. We have had much discussion about …
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How my high school English teacher made me a better gardener
"An endless amount of interest is gathered round the literary history of plants. I like to grow any plant that is mentioned by the old Greek and Latin writers - such as Theophrastus, Aristotle, …
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