Dear Louise Shelton, Who are you? I know that you wrote a book in 1906 called The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instructions for the Amateur. I know that you likely …
In Green Old Gardens – A Poem
I found a poem today down in a rabbit hole of old gardening books where one author and book leads to another, and another, and then there is a snippet of a poem, and then I find the entire poem. I …
I’m Ready!
A pansy from another spring, in the past I'm ready! I have seeds. I have new gardening gloves. I have a new hoe. I have increased my knowledge of gardening, finding tidbits and treasures down …
Garden of Desire
It was Liberty Hyde Bailey who wrote in The Gardener (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925), "Gardening is more than the growing of plants: it is the expression of desire." What do we desire from …
Shopping like it’s 1931
I ordered a special garden catalog a few weeks ago, one that would take me to a place and time I'd never been before - 1931. You can turn to any page in this catalog,"Dreer's Garden Book 1931", and …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: February 2013
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for February 2013. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, winter continues. It seems at times like a roller coaster ride that goes up and …
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