I’ve got seeds! Take that Mr. Winter! You can huff and puff and blow your snow around. You can be cold and miserable and throw those icy paths before me. Give me your best shot and I’m positive I’ll …
House Plant Census at May Dreams Gardens
Mr. McGregor’s Daughter has organized a house plant census so I have dutifully counted up my indoor plants, including various hyacinth and narcissus bulbs. Included in my collection of house plants …
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Hortense Hoelove Answers Groundhog Day Questions
Dear Hortense Hoelove, Do you believe in the groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil? Isn’t he the greatest weather forecaster of all time? Doesn’t he deserve his own website and all that media coverage? Even …
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Random Acts of Seed Purchasing
In what may seem to some to be an appallingly haphazard fashion, I’ve placed my first two seed orders. The ordering process went something like this: I need some green beans. Do they have ‘Provider’? …
How To Get Me To Buy A Seed Variety.
I am about to reveal to all those who have to write the thousands of descriptions for all those varieties of seeds in all those seed catalogs how to get me to buy their seeds. Tell me a story about …
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What the Plants Are Really Saying.
A little chatter overheard amongst the various indoor plants here at May Dreams Gardens… “Oh, look, I’m blooming! I’m so pretty and I love my name. 'Blossom Peacock’. Don’t I look just divine, ready …
