It’s May! Happy May 1st !Take up your trowels and hoes and wide-brimmed hats, it’s time to plant and weed and sow seed in the garden.May starts as Spring with fat buds, fragrant new flowers and newly …
On The Eve of May
There’s an annual beginning in every garden, a point in time that seems like the “new year’s day” for the garden, when the old is past and the new is welcomed in. It’s a time when everything seems …
The Society Meets Again: What’s In A Name and Dwarf Bearded Irises
Greetings to all members of the Society for the Preservation and Propagation of Old-Time Gardening Wisdom, Lore, and Superstition (SPPOTGWLS or “the Society”)Welcome to this special meeting of the …
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There’s A Daylily In There Somewhere
This daylily, Hemerocallis sp., was nearly overtaken by a large dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, thus requiring extraordinary procedures to eradicate the dandelion.In other words, I had to perform a …
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Letters to Gardening Friends, April 26, 2009
Dear Dee and Mary Ann,Greetings from my almost weeded garden!What do you think of this daffodil picture I included?I believe this is the prettiest daffodil I've seen all year, bar none! The best did …
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My Summer Reading List: Part 1
Whew. Hot today! I was sweating like August out there while I mowed my lawn. It feels like summer, even though it’s spring. It is spring, isn’t it? I didn’t fall asleep and miss something like, May, …
