Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and it is now late January and we can count on just one hand the number of times Carol has updated this blog. Four. And we don't need any smart …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – January 2020
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2020. If you've been following along with bloom day since its beginning in February 2007, congratulations on completing 13 years of bloom day posts. …
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Everything I Know, I Learned From Gardening: Roots
If you force hyacinth bulbs in vases, you'll notice that before the shoot sprouts, the roots grow. The roots are the foundation. They help to anchor the bulb in the vase before the top-heavy shoot …
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I like how these flowers fade
I like how these flowers fade. They add a little color as they head off into the sunset of their season. Helleborus niger. The Christmas Rose. By now, most of us have put away our Christmas and …
Happy New Year, Twenty
"Which gate will he come through?" The old rabbit—Nineteen—looked to each side of the garden at the gates, wondering which one the new year rabbit would hop through. "Will it be the east gate?" …
Garden Fairies Discuss Waxed Amaryllis Bulbs
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we would like to take a minute to discuss waxed amaryllis bulbs. We had heard of these waxed bulbs long before Carol brought three of them into the …
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