Where are the thrills of gardening? Where are the chills? The excitement? Where can you walk the tightrope of the garden, where one ill-timed freeze could cause a bloom to fall off and become …
Leave the last of the blooms
Tempting to pick, but leave it for the garden fairies. "Leave the last of the blooms for the garden fairies." Thus the old saying* goes. For if you don't... do you really want to know what happens, …
What does it do?
"What does it do?" is a question a friend of mine often asks me when she goes with me to a garden center. As we walk among the trees and shrubs, I'm thinking Fothergill gardenii, great fall foliage, …
Frost tickles, freeze slaps
Frost tickled the garden yesterday morning and from what I could tell, very little seemed to be affected other than maybe the pepper plants in the vegetable garden, which were calling it quits …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – October 2015
Black-eyed Susans, a bit of floral flotsam Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for October 2015. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the growing season is slowly coming to …
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Five questions to ask about your garden this fall
A bit of floral flotsam As I stand in the garden, leaning on a hoe, surveying the remains of summer, I turn introspective, as most gardeners do this time of year. Here are five questions I ask …
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