To many gardeners, "frost" is a four-letter word, even in the fall of the year. Merely hinting that there is a chance of frost or whispering "frost" sends some gardeners scrambling to cover their …
Fall is when we show true love for our gardens
If you don't fall in love with your garden all over again in the fall, then perhaps you don't love your garden at all? It's easy to love a garden in the springtime when every plant seems fresh and …
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Garden Fairies Post on the First Day of Fall
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we always start out our posts with "garden fairies here" so you know it is us and not Carol writing these posts. We feel it is important for …
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A Gardener’s Conundrum
The conundrum was how to do enough clean up to make it look like someone regularly tends this garden without doing all the clean up so there would be something to clean up once they came. Such was my …
Get Ready for Spring
The goldenrods are just about ready to bloom which means it is time to get ready for spring. Get ready for spring, you ask? Thank you for asking. So often we think of late summer and fall as the …
It was an amazing fall
It was an amazing fall. One day the high temperature was 73º F and the next day the high temperature was just 43º F. If ever one was looking for a sign that our amazing fall of 2016 was over, I …
