The garden is full of lessons, just waiting for us to learn them. In my first decade of life, I learned that gardening is enjoyable. I watched my Dad enjoy working in his garden, growing red …
Dear Friends and Gardeners September 6, 2010
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, The other day on the way home from work, I stopped at a garden center and bought some grass seed and on impulse picked up the 2011 Old Farmer’s …
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Gardening Geek: Labor Day Edition
Coleus 'Crimson Gold' You might be a gardening geek on Labor Day if... You plan to spend this bonus day off in your garden and hope it doesn’t rain even though you need rain and desperately want it …
A Path
A path through a future woodland garden... Imagine it with more plants... Little tiny plants that make you want to bend over and see them more closely. Bigger plants that hide the curve a bit and …
September – The Fall May
Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst' Through my 10 20 30 many seasons of gardening, I’ve come to realize that September is just as important a month in deciding how the garden will look in the …
Garden Design Elements: Seasonal-shift
I find it very confusing to be in a garden where plants are blooming everywhere you look and there is no place to rest your eyes without seeing something else that screams out to be seen or if you do …
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