One day you are out in your garden and there out of the corner of your eye you notice one of those blooms that you always think of as a late bloom, one that marks the beginning of the end of the …
Cannas Tell You What Type of Gardener You Are
I will admit the canna shown here isn't the canna of my childhood, which always had red flowers. My dad usually planted them in a row in the vegetable garden.Side note: I like flowers in a …
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Mulch Guilt?
I have a secret and I've left it in plain sight on my back patio. And part of the secret is on the stoop outside the garage side door.My secret is that I still have at least 15 bags of mulch that I …
A Garden Blogger’s Tale
Once upon a time, there was a gardener who decided that she should plant a blog in her garden so she could share it with others. Hopefully, and without much fanfare, she planted the blog, tended it, …
My Old Neighbors
This Allium 'Millenium' will always remind me of our next-door neighbors when I was a kid. Not because they grew this particular variety of Allium—it was introduced in 1990, long after I'd left …
A Peace Offering?
As soon as I stepped out the back door and looked down, I saw it. A half-eaten cherry tomato. And that's being generous to say half-eaten. It looks like someone took just one bite out of it! Who did …
