Dear Garden, Dearest Garden, Dear Garden in Winter, I am entrusting to your care these little plants that I was not able to find just the right homes for before it got cold, so I planted them out …
December
It's December. The squirrel knows it. The calendar shows it. Many of us will pause as we flip our calendar over to this last month of the year and wonder how it came to be that another year has …
Guest Post: Garden Fairies write a poem
Garden Fairies here. We have decided to write a very rarely seen garden fairy poem as a follow up to Carol's post from the other day in which she wrote a poem and also posted a poem that a squirrel …
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Squirrel, Who Are You
I thought at first it was a lost fake fur stole. The villain has arrived. She easily climbed up the shepherd’s crook and draped herself upside down on the feeder to reach the bird seed. She began to …
Revealing birds, fairies, and letters
Some gardeners are afraid to plant large shrubs that grow wide and tall. I'm not. This Snowball Viburnum is a mass of branches and has many suckers around its base. But I leave it in its natural …
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Happy Thanksgiving
Dad's turkey picture circa 1930's Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. On this special holiday, I am grateful for family and for my siblings who have graciously bestowed upon me all of our parents' …
