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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – March 2023

March 15, 2023 By Carol 15 Comments

Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for March 2023. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we were greeted this morning (the 14th) with what I'd call a heavy dusting of snow and temperatures well below freezing. I've already planted out new violas and pansies this spring, but they'll be fine. We always end up with a cold snap or two—last year it went down into the teens—and they've always just shrugged it off. Elsewhere in the garden, there are more flowers of … [Read more...] about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – March 2023

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Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Grace A. Woolson

March 1, 2023 By Carol 2 Comments

I've reached the point in cataloging all my books where I am adding books that have no ISBN number. I'm using an app called CLZ Books to do this. If there is a barcode on the book, it's easy to add it. I scan the barcode, wait a second for the program to find the book, then add it to my collection. For books without an ISBN number, I have to look up the book by its title or author. If someone has previously added it to their collection and uploaded that information to the cloud, the … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Grace A. Woolson

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Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Jean Hersey

February 25, 2023 By Carol 2 Comments

I hadn't heard of Jean Hersey, our next lost lady of garden writing, until Susan M. left a comment on my post about month-by-month books suggesting I might like Jean's book, The Shape of a Year (1967). I quickly looked up this book and decided I might indeed like it. I also discovered I could get a copy through my library, so I reserved it for pick up later. Then, even though I am methodically going through all my books to catalog them and get rid of those I think I'll never read, telling … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Jean Hersey

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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – February 2023

February 15, 2023 By Carol 13 Comments

Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for February 2023. Here in my USDA hardiness zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I'm looking around in amazement at all the flowers in bloom. This has certainly been a mild stretch of weather and unlike my first bloom day post back in February 2007 when the garden was snow covered, I have a lot of outdoor blooms to show today. As I've noted on Instagram and a few recent blog posts, the crocuses are coming up everywhere. Most of them are variations … [Read more...] about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – February 2023

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Crocuses and Eggshells

February 13, 2023 By Carol 1 Comment

After years of planting crocus corms in my back lawn every fall, I skipped planting a few hundred more last fall. But the lawn blooms on! And on! The first crocuses showed up quite early this year, around January 28, and by yesterday—a bright sunny day with highs in the 50s—they were in full flower. I even put a reel on Instagram showing them. I was persistent in planting more crocus corms every year, and I practiced great patience in waiting to see them each spring (winter). … [Read more...] about Crocuses and Eggshells

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Garden Fairies: Our Big January Surprise

January 29, 2023 By Carol Leave a Comment

Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and we are pleased to share that our big January surprise project worked! No, our big January surprise project was not to make these snowdrops bloom, though they are lovely and if you look closely at the picture you'll see there are four nice sized bunches of them drifting through the flower bed. Drifting! Now there's a word we don't think some AI whatever could write about flowers. Our big January surprise project is actually these crocuses … [Read more...] about Garden Fairies: Our Big January Surprise

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