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15.04.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Old Fashioned Gardening

Interesting Facts for Gardeners

Cottage gardens and English borders are examples of “Old Fashioned Gardening”. Why say that? I think it has to do with the amount of work one is prepared to do, the need for intensive gardening techniques, and the result of an abundant all season show. It is common in more modern landscapes and lifestyles to…

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30.08.15 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Discussion on What Versailles May Teach a Modern Homeowner

Interesting Facts for Gardeners

I found the following video fascinating. It covers many topics of interest to modern homeowners and gardeners, foodies and historians. I want to take some of the quotes- there were so many! The simplest, most zenlike is that there is no garden without the gardener. Watch the video… which topic struck you as one to…

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25.04.14 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Spring Fever Struck

Interesting Facts for Gardeners + Seasons + spring

Daffodils always bring Spring’s message All my life I’ve heard the phrase, “Spring Fever”, but oddly enough I don’t think I ever properly knew the meaning of it.  I had the impression that it meant some kind of seasonal frenzy, a result of people becoming feverish to get on with the business of the new…

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13.01.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Hints and Tips #457

gardening tips + Interesting Facts for Gardeners

I just made that number up, but not the helpful garden tip!Buy lots of Bounce Dryer Sheets. The Garden Professors shared this nugget: Entomologist Dr. Raymond Cloyd of Kansas State University and his group were intrigued by Master Gardener anecdotes of dryer sheets repelling mosquitoes, though no research had been done. Could your common Bounce…

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16.03.10 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Garden Fashion – New Trend

Interesting Facts for Gardeners

You may not think about it that way, but gardening is as much a fashion victim as home interiors. Who has avocado green appliances any more? And who admits to little circles of flowers in the front yard? Point made. Large scale landscaping follows the same track on a bigger scale, and probably over a…

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14.01.10 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

Community Farming Video

Interesting Facts for Gardeners

Green Meadows Farm is a video recounting the community farming project that gives people of a community the opportunity to partner with a farm and experience the production and educate their family at the same time.

12.10.09 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Nomenclature to just keep us on our toes.

garden basics + Interesting Facts for Gardeners

Symphyotrichum… three guesses what old flower that new designation labels. Give up? Asters. Just plain old new world asters like the “aster novae-angliae”. Profiled here, properly, I’m afraid I used the old name when I wrote about asters in September. While researching for writing I also discovered that the autumn clematis had another name change,…

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12.06.09 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

Diatoms

gardening tips + Interesting Facts for Gardeners

I happened upon a most amazing picture. Who knew that diatoms were such a lovely lot? Organic gardeners know that diatomaceous earth is useful for insect control, but I was surprised at its uses. There are food grade and pool grade, the latter being poisonous, but the food grade is good for worming, and to…

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20.04.09 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

Helping Your Honeybees

Interesting Facts for Gardeners

Scientific American had an article on “Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees” which follows the pathways of bee demise and the various theories surrounding why the bees and their colonies collapse wholesale. At the end is this statement: simple changes in agricultural practices such as breaking up monocultures with hedgerows could help restore balance…

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08.01.09 | Ilona Erwin | 5 Comments

Gothic Gardening

An Armchair Gardener + Interesting Facts for Gardeners

Hope you readers like this humorous look at poisonous plants. Amy Stewart, I love you! Cute, funny, and informative all at the same time. As pretty as monkshood is, I denied it a place in my garden for just that reason, “better safe than sorry”. Tags:Amy Stewart, poisonous plants

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