Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are posting on this blog so that it doesn't go dormant and disappear like that chocolate Carol bought and swore would last her for weeks and weeks. …
On the Occasion of the First Snow of the Season
I do hope this short little blog posts lives up to the lofty title I've given it. "On the Occasion of the First Snow of the Season," which I will follow with a subtitle of: "Down a Rabbit Hole …
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Skip Winter? I Think Not!
Today I pulled The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instruction for the Amateur by Louise Shelton (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909) off my shelf to see what she wrote about …
Snowdrop Watch
It's a good thing I didn't plan a big festival for late November to welcome the first snowdrops of the season. They are not to be found this year. Where they came up last year and bloomed at …
I’m so February…
For the first time in quite some time, we had enough snow and cold that I paid someone to shovel out my driveway. Normally I clear it off myself but we had at least eight inches of snow the other …
A Different Kind of Holiday Greenery
All throughout the land, on this first Sunday of Advent, on this eve of the first predicted snowfall of the season, gardeners everywhere are scurrying around putting the last of the garden to be …
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