To many gardeners, "frost" is a four-letter word, even in the fall of the year. Merely hinting that there is a chance of frost or whispering "frost" sends some gardeners scrambling to cover their …
Fall is when we show true love for our gardens
If you don't fall in love with your garden all over again in the fall, then perhaps you don't love your garden at all? It's easy to love a garden in the springtime when every plant seems fresh and …
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I was all “tough gardener” until…
I was all "tough gardener" this morning heading out to my garden to do some weeding and deadheading. I wasn't going to show any mercy as I began to pull out and cut back in Plopper's Field, my …
The World’s Most Well-Traveled Gardening Book
I'm trying to remember how it got started. How it became "a thing" for my friends and family, and sometimes me, to post pictures of Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life at locations literally …
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Garden Fairies Post on the First Day of Fall
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we always start out our posts with "garden fairies here" so you know it is us and not Carol writing these posts. We feel it is important for …
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A Raccoon Rumspringa Party in My Garden
I went out earlier today to check on my pawpaws and they were gone. Gone. As in not a trace of a pawpaw anywhere. No half eaten fruit. No seeds delicately spit out by whoever ate them. No tracks. No …
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