Bee on swamp milkweed If all the birds and the bees and the spiders and the insects and the chipmunks and the squirrels and all the other creatures disappeared from your garden, what would be …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2016
Clematis x triternata 'Rubromarginata' Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for June 2016. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the garden is beginning to …
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The Ritual of Shelling Peas
I've picked peas from my little pea patch twice this week. Then I sat down and shelled out the peas. I shelled out about three quarts of peas from the first picking and about two quarts of peas from …
Garden fairies note changes
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we have decided to post on this blog at this unusual time, in the middle of the day, because there are certain events, changes, and goings-on here that …
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your pruners
Not far from here, but far enough from here, there's a race taking place in Indianapolis. It's the Indy 500 race, of course, and it always takes place on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. No …
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The Pea Family Showed Up This Week
I was standing out in the garden and noticed I was surrounded by blooms from the pea family of plants. My initial thought was, "oh good, the Leguminosae family has arrived. Oh wait, not Leguminosae …
