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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Winter Has Arrived And It is Making Me Shovel the Driveway
A few weeks ago, well actually last weekend when it was warm enough that I went out and cut down my grapevines, I had this fleeting idea that perhaps we were going to escape actual "winter", meaning, …
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The Lone Snowdrop
I looked out the window a few days ago and surveyed the back garden. Within seconds, I saw the gleaming white of a lone snowdrop in bloom. Lovely readers, we simply do not have snowdrops blooming …
