Podophyllum peltatum There is just one mayapple. I should pull up this one mayapple like it is a weed. It might take over my woodland wildflower garden. I never planned to have mayapples in my …
Purple Deadnettle
Purple Deadnettle My heart races and my mind goes in a thousand directions at once when I step outside and see what seems like every plant blooming at once. Daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, …
Welcome, Dandelions
Look closely to see the garden fairies disguised as dandelions I never realized when I ordered All in a Garden Fair by Alice T. A. Quackenbush (A. T. De Le Mare Company, Inc., 1925) that I would …
Star-of-Bethlehem Discovered in Woodland Follies
INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- On a quiet afternoon, Ms. Carol M. Indygardener was tending to her garden, mostly marking out new beds in the vegetable garden, when she noticed a pretty, white, almost shiny …
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The Gardener and the Mighty Dandelion
There in the garden, the wild dandelion was trapped, cornered, easy prey for the gardener, who swooped down upon it and with her bare hands pulled it out of the rain-softened earth. She was …
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Loudon’s Rules of Horticulture, Rule No. 7
And I quote from Garden-Making: Suggestions for the Utilization of Home Grounds by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898), “Persons who follow the entertaining writings of Mr. A. B. Tarryer (a pseudonym for a …
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