I couldn’t help myself. I was at the former “Wild Oats”, now “Whole Foods” store yesterday and there were the last of their flowering kale offerings on sale for 99 ¢ each. You know me by now… if you read this garden journal. I am a frugal gardener, but also an addicted one. I could […]
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July ’07 State of the Garden
Lavender Walk I have been gardening, not blogging, and this was one of my resolutions for 2007. So far so good. It has been hot here, but we received some rain earlier this month; a huge downpour on the Fourth, which as a lady at Curve’s said “We will take what ever comes and not […]
Saturday Was Slave Day OR Ilona’s Terrible Awful No-Good Day
And the slave was me. I worked very hard from quite early in the morning potting up even more containers. I have more sunny flower containers than shady ones, but more part-sun spaces. Oh well. It was so hot, I could only do a little digging and weeding. I tried to get my husband to […]
Containers That Caught My Eye
The first two pictures were taken @ Innis Garden last year, the third was from Easton Shopping Center. I very much like the choice of one magnificent plant with a graceful container and interesting support. This part of Innis garden is called a “secret garden”, made to look like and old ruin and tucked away […]
Once Upon A Time: the lavender walk
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State of the Garden: the lavender hedge
Lavender Hedge New Lavender Plants I’ve been working in the garden- thus little blogging. The first order of business has been the lavender hedge along the walk. This past year with the unduly warm January and then arctic blasts in Springtime have wrecked havoc with the lavender hedge and with the viburnums, especially. The viburnums […]
