Repent, ye gardeners, repent! Repent and pay your penance with hours of weeding for planting, once again, a plant that you had no business planting, that took hold in your garden and while you …
How Clean? A Giveaway Sponsored by Botanical Interests
After a day of working in your garden, where you have managed to cover yourself from head to toe with dirt, mud, grass stains, and other stains, how "cleaned up" do you need to be to make one last mad …
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Would You Rather Be An Excellent Gardener or A Successful Gardener?
I read a Dale Carnegie quote earlier this week and my thoughts turned to gardening, as they always do. Before you read the quote, take a minute to answer this question: Would you rather be an …
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The Tale of the Four New Clematis
Once upon a time, Jo Ellen, the Hoosier Gardener, came to see my garden and asked me why I had “caged” my Clematis integrifolia ‘Alba’. She suggested I free it and let it just grow up and around the …
Happy May 1st
All year I dream of the days of May when the sun is warm, the sky is blue, the grass is green, and the garden is all new again! Welcome to the month of May at May Dreams Gardens. Welcome to a …
An Unexpected Pilgrimage: Lob’s Wood
And suddenly, I found I was on an unexpected pilgrimage. In the preface to her book The Little Bulbs: A Tale of Two Gardens, one of my favorite garden writers, Elizabeth Lawrence, wrote, “This is a …
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