I've recently become acquainted with a new plant family, Legolaceae. There appear to be at least six species in this plant family, all from the genus Lego. The poster above shows these six new …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2021
Greetings on a lovely Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day in June! If you don’t love a garden in June, will you ever love it? Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I'm …
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A collection of plants in the genus Viola is called…
I read recently that a collection of pine trees and other evergreens is called a pinetum. A new term to me. I already knew that an arboretum is a collection of trees and a herbarium is a collection of …
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Garden Fairies Prepare to Save the Garden, Again
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and once again, it is apparently up to us to save this garden from, well, Carol. Let us begin by saying that we've calmed Granny 'Gus' McGarden down and …
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A webinar about how I self-publish
On Thursday, June 3rd at 7:00 PM ET, I'm going to do a webinar for GardenComm to explain how I self-publish my books and how you could do the same. The official title is "How to Self-Publish Your …
Found in the Garden
For those who read my last post, I'll share an update. I found my gardening knife. It was lying on the stone edge of one of the raised beds in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral. In plain sight. The …
