An idea growing in my garden Every winter, I plant seeds for ideas to harvest and use in the garden. Ideas are pretty easy to grow. They don't seem to mind the cold temperatures. In fact, …
In the old seed box I found…
On the top of a bookshelf in my den, I keep an old cardboard shipping box with the seeds my Dad ordered back in 1987 for a garden he wouldn't end up planting in its entirety. The seed packets, some …
If plants had boots instead of roots
If plants had boots instead of roots, would they stay in your garden or put their boots to work and move on? Why would they move on? For starters, there is the weather forecast. After a weekend of …
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Enjoy the flowers
As soon as the weather warmed again, the crocuses returned. And not just the crocuses. The bees showed up, too. They seemed almost frantic as the went from one flower to another, grabbing all the …
Plants: Time to Value and Length of Value
A tree's LoV is a long, long time, hopefully I've been thinking about plants. In particular I've been thinking about how long it takes a plant to "deliver its value" once you bring it home and plant …
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Garden Fairies Report: Flower under pillow, flowers in your dreams
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we have decided to post on this blog on a Tuesday, which is quite unusual for us. Usually we post on Sundays because that's when Carol is most likely to …
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