If this blog was about birds, I’d be in trouble.My typical posts would be something like…Oh, look, a bird at my feeder.Oh, look, a bird eating off the ground, it must be a morning dove. Or is it a …
When a Gardener Reads the Newspaper
When a gardener reads the newspaper early in the morning and sees a sub-heading about ‘Top Mercury-Emitting Plants’…She thinks… There are plants that emit mercury!? Are any of these growing in my …
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Porch Chat: We Are A Lot Like Watering Cans
It’s a bit too cold to sit on the porch these days, so come on in and let’s talk about what we’ve learned about watering cans so far this week.We now know that many gardeners have more then one …
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Watering Can Roses and Other Parts
According to William Bryant Logan in "The Tool Book","The watering can looks like an ancient tool, but the first mention of it in the Oxford English Dictionary dates only from 1692. More than a decade …
Happy Do Nothing in the Garden Day
I declare November 12th to be Do Nothing in the Garden Day.Because I still have a lot of garden clean up to do, I've been feeling pressure to get out there in whatever daylight is left when I get home …
Halloween Sighting at May Dreams Gardens
It was a dark and stormy night…It was Halloween night.As I walked along the garden path, dry leaves crunching beneath my feet, I thought I heard the sounds of someone else walking through the garden. …
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