Today I pulled The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instruction for the Amateur by Louise Shelton (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909) off my shelf to see what she wrote about …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, January 2024
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2024. And Happy New Year. Here in my USDA Hardiness supposedly zone 6b garden in central Indiana, we are experiencing the same artic blast of …
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A Bit of Wisdom from 1935
I'm pleased to bring you a bit of gardening wisdom from 1935, from the book Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle by Clare Leighton. The picture I've chosen to go with this wisdom is just a random, …
Garden Fairies Report on Winter
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are here to provide you dear readers with a report on winter so far. Now, before we go into details, we garden fairies must remind everyone that …
Happy New Year, Twenty-Four
The old rabbit, Twenty-Three, paused in her preparations for leaving the garden to reflect on her year. The one thing she knew for sure was that it all went by in a flash. How could it be 12 …
Keeping My Poinsettia Like It’s 1932
How do you keep your poinsettia? "Keep?" You might be one of those people who don't keep their poinsettia at all. You toss it in the trash after December 25th and never give it another thought as …
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