Decoy viola picture Well, now, this is certainly embarrassing. I'm not sure how it happened and wonder if it was caused by some unseen force (garden fairies) at work in my garden, playing tricks on …
Selection Sunday, Our thoughts turn to gardening
I bought and planted violas. It's Selection Sunday, when college basketball teams find out if they've been chosen to play in the NCAA tournament, and our thoughts turn to gardening, as they always …
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Dang and Darn in the Garden
Have you seen Dang and Darn in your garden? Whenever you start to garden, whether it is at the beginning of the season or for the first time in your life, they show up in the first five minutes and …
Madness
Madness. How else does one describe the thoughts of a gardener on the first warm day of spring? How does one explain the furtive glances out the window, the longing to go out and do something, …
Feeling the garden
How would you describe this garden? By the names of the flowers - coneflowers, statis, coreopsis? By what is there - flowers, lawn, evergreen, fence? Or would you describe it by how it makes you …
You Can Grow That! Iris reticulata
Iris reticulata Pssssst... over here. Did anyone follow you? Are we alone? I have something to show you in my garden. It's a tiny little iris that is blooming right now in my USDA Hardiness …
