Are you wondering how we "northern gardeners" make it through winter without "gardening"?On her blog Edenmakers™, Shirley Bovshow asked, "Garden Coma: What will you do while your garden sleeps?"I …
In The Fall, Red Rules in My Garden
Do you plan for fall color in your garden?I have so much red in my garden right now, that I'm going to claim I planned it that way! Who would know otherwise?Forget that I don't really like red …
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It’s Still a Beautiful World
Days like today, with clear blue skies and warm temperatures, make us forget that winter is closer than spring.We get in an awful big hurry late in the fall, trying to clean everything up and stow it …
Frosted Impatiens
I am pretty sure that those gardeners who garden in climates where there is no killing frost, no forced dormancy, no real end to a gardening season, secretly envy those of us who have gardens that die …
Remembering Other Frosty Days at May Dreams Gardens
Today we had a killing frost.A year ago today, we had a killing frost.What are the chances of having a killing frost like that on the same day, two years in a row?I don’t know, as I don’t have the …
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Other Colors Revealed
Botanists tell us that the fall leaf colors, those yellows, oranges, and reds, are in the leaves from the beginning but are masked by the green of chlorophyll for the duration of the growing …