When a gardener visits a forest, She looks for the color of the leaves and finds the red of the Sassafras trees (Sassafras albidum) in the understory. She remembers how her Dad tried to dig up …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – October 2010
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for October 2010! Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden October has so far brought us bright sunny skies, at least two days with record setting high …
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Hortus sanus: Failure is on the menu at Mother Nature’s Diner
Welcome to your own private garden restaurant, Mother Nature’s Diner. You plan to order beautiful flowers to feast your eyes on, loamy soil that looks like chocolate cake mix, and the perfect amount …
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Buds and Spades and Other Stuff
Any day now... This Stapelia bud is going to open up and I'll find out what it really smells like. It is supposed to smell and look like rotting flesh. I can hardly wait. Seriously, I can hardly …
Happiest Moments in a Garden
We gardeners must look strange to those looking at us from the other side of the fence. There we are, sweat dripping down our dirt streaked faces and errant leaves and twigs stuck in our hair. Our …
Ten
Ten Peas In A Pod On this the tenth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of the century, our thoughts turn to gardening, as they always do. I have ten random thoughts to tender on this tenth …
