Happy Valentine's Day Tip of the hoe to Kylee at Our Little Acre for sending me this card last spring. She saw the hoe and thought of me! Everything "hoe" -- that's me! …
Garden fairies don’t know what to take
Dill flowers are a favorite of the garden fairies. Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we do not know whether we should take umbrage or take cover. We have had much discussion about …
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How my high school English teacher made me a better gardener
"An endless amount of interest is gathered round the literary history of plants. I like to grow any plant that is mentioned by the old Greek and Latin writers - such as Theophrastus, Aristotle, …
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Garden without fear
Some gardeners are afraid of colors like orange. Fear? There should be no fear in gardening. How sad that some people garden with so much fear. Fear of pruning, fear of sowing, fear of …
Tidbits, Treasures, and Thanks
A few tidbits and treasures suitable for a Thursday morning. I'd like to thank Mary Ann of Gardens of the Wild, Wild West for recommending that I obtain a copy of Grandmother's Garden: The …
50 Shades of Green
I discovered early on in gardening that there are many shades of green, and many ways to describe green. There is green(1), aquamarine(2), and chartreuse(3) for starters. Then there are greens that …
