Forb n. A broad-leaved herb other than a grass, especially one growing in a field, prairie, or meadow. ~~~~~ I met with the garden designer and the hort enabler Monday evening to go over plant …
Loudon’s Rules of Horticulture, Rule No. 7
And I quote from Garden-Making: Suggestions for the Utilization of Home Grounds by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898), “Persons who follow the entertaining writings of Mr. A. B. Tarryer (a pseudonym for a …
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Garden Fairies Guest Post: Rules, Traditions, and Guidelines
Garden fairies here! Happy First Day of Spring to all the clumsy big feet people, or CBF’s as we like to call all the gardeners. We call all you gardeners CBF's because it seems that whenever you …
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No Time for Rabbit Holes
This is not the time, place, or season for rabbit holes, for diving deep into old, often long forgotten, gardening books from a century ago. It is not. The days are getting longer and warmer, and …
Reputations
Should I be concerned that not just one person, but two people left this comic strip from yesterday's newspaper on my desk at work? Now why would they leave this particular comic on my desk? "Why", …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – March 2011
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for March 2011. Here in my central Indiana USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden, we welcome back Iris danfordiea, who returns after a three year absence. Three …
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