Patience in the garden is one thing, persistence is quite another.Patience is about waiting, persistence is about not giving up.Last summer, I lamented that I could not get a decent harvest of green …
Waiting at May Dreams Gardens
Did you ever think about how much waiting gardeners do?I'm currently waiting for my sweet corn ears to fill out. I've spent less time obsessing over the corn this year, except for that one day when I …
Encouragement for New Gardeners: No Garden is Perfect
Colleen at In the Garden Online suggested that we should encourage new gardeners by showing them the ugly parts of our gardens.You know, the parts we carefully edit out of our pictures before posting …
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Happy, then Disgusted, then Happy Again
You can experience a lot of different emotions in just a few minutes in the garden.For a few minutes, I was so happy in my garden.I saw that my candy lilies are starting to bud out. These were little …
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Seven Garden Items on the Seventh
Seven things about my garden and other thoughts that have to do with the number seven, posted on a day of sevens.7.1 There are seven different kinds of hostas planted in my miniature garden. I bought …
Rock-a-bye Gardener, in the Tree Shade
What does a gardener wish for when she plants a tree? Just a little shade for her hammock so she can while away the day and dream about her garden.Here's the view from the hammock...And if you lay in …
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