Give me those old time gardening tools. Give me simplicity of design. Give me quality that lasts for decades. Give me the patina of age, of tools well used by past gardeners. My sister-in-law …
A gardener’s winter lair
One of the most important preparations a gardener can make for winter is to set up a winter lair. The winter lair should be indoors for obvious reasons, like snow and sleet and ice and rain and cold …
Guest Post: Garden Fairies Discuss Time and Whodunit
Garden fairies here. We are very excited about upcoming events that will be taking place this weekend here at our year-round home and garden, May Dreams Gardens. We get an extra hour. That's …
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It’s time
The garden is bare now, except for the weeds left from a season that silently, softly slipped away. With fall days that felt more like summer, the only sure sign that this was the end of the …
Memory Gardens
The last violet of the season I spent some time cleaning up the vegetable garden earlier today. A slight breeze rustled through the last of the corn stalks as fallen leaves from the nearby grape vine …
Personal Assistant for a Gardener
I am thrilled to announce that I have hired a new personal assistant - Miss J. Hortaway. Miss Hortaway will help me organize the list of bulbs I just planted, so I can easily determine the names of …
