A garden is more than plants and flowers. A garden is the story of a gardener. Each season is a new chapter. Each plant and flower adds a sentence or two. Some gardens are made up of many stories, …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – October 2014
Autumn crocus, Crocus speciosus Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for October 2014. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I am pleased to introduce a new bloom in my …
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Magical Autumn Crocus – A Story
Once upon a time, in the autumn time, a bouquet of garden fairies were sitting in a garden, resting after a long day spent painting tree leaves in the traditional colors of fall. The garden …
Ten things your garden wants you to do this fall.
Your garden wants you to come out do some things this fall. Really. It does. Here are the ten things it wants you to do. Get rid of the dead stuff. While you are at it, get rid of any plant you …
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The color of fall
Autumn crocus The color of fall is gold and orange and yellow and brown and tan, right? Well, someone forgot to tell my garden about this color scheme. Here in my garden, we are enjoying purples …
Compost by the sea
Beach after storms tossed seaweed onto the shore I watched as the old man picked up seaweed along the beach. He moved gingerly, picking up the seaweed with long tongs, the kind generally used to pick …
