It is important to know if you have rabbits in or around your garden so that you can take precautions to prevent them from eating your lettuce before you get a chance to harvest it for yourself. How …
Dear Hortense Hoelove: Horticultural Senility?
Tulipa humilis 'Eastern Star' Someone left a question for Hortense Hoelove on my Facebook page. Hortense has agreed to answer it. Dear Hortense Hoelove, "How does one overcome a persistent case of …
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Timing is Everything: A Reader Visits
Anemone blanda 'White Splendor' Timing, they say, is everything. In life, in the garden, in taking pictures, and in sharing information. When I found out earlier this week that some information I …
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Reputations
Should I be concerned that not just one person, but two people left this comic strip from yesterday's newspaper on my desk at work? Now why would they leave this particular comic on my desk? "Why", …
The Crabapple Branch Gardener’s Personality Test
Please look quickly at the picture below and write down your first thought. Don't stare at it or study it or ponder it or pore over it. Just look at it and think about what first comes to mind, …
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Three Wishes for Thursday
Iris reticulata 'Lady Beatrix Stanley' I have three wishes for this Thursday. I wish that it would stop raining long enough for the raised beds in the vegetable garden to dry out so that I can rip …
