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Colorful Flowers

Why we work so hard in the garden is due to the beauty of colorful flowers. They are a large part of the attraction we have to growing certain plants.

26.02.13 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

What’s So Great About Annual Flowers?

Annual flowers

A Temporary Transplant My first gardens were all about two kinds of plantings: vegetables and annuals. For one thing, I rented the home, and as a renter, a person is not very motivated to sink time, money, and effort into planting perennials and shrubs. So probably the first thing I did during this period was…

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18.02.13 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

10 Cool Season Annual Flowers To Plant

10 Best + Annual flowers

Shirley poppies and Bachelor Buttons Not every garden writer alerts you to the fact that annuals can have seasons that are shorter than other choices. For places like Ohio which have hot summers, there are common annuals that only do well when our weather is cooler, such as in early summer. Those flowers sort of…

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01.03.12 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Do You Like Lavender?

Garden Perennial Plants + Uncategorized

I love it. It is a plant that I have been growing during most of my gardening career, starting with the first herb plants I tucked into my city lot garden. It was in that garden on Glen Echo Drive that I discovered how perfectly paired English lavender (Lavender vera) and dark purple petunias (Purple…

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photo by Ulf Eliasson

26.03.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

True Lilies

About Flowers + bulbs + Plants

Glorious Lilies   I mentioned that lilies do well for me. They do, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had some learning experiences along the way. For one thing, I have a country garden with all the attendant critters that like to munch on lily bulbs. Also, as a genus lilies are not uniform in…

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13.03.11 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Roses Scenting the Air

Garden photos + Garden Roses

::repost::I can’t wait until I get to smell the roses again. Paul Neyron, is an old fashioned rose. But nobody tells you that after heat, heavy rains, and the rest of the roses bloomtime being just about over and this guy is looking perfect and fresh as any super suave gentleman might. A real stand…

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24.01.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Vase of Flowers

About Flowers + Garden photos + Garden Stories and Memories

Flowers for the Guestroom… I love cut flowers, but I don’t often create bouquets for the house. It is a gracious habit, however, and one which I think I will pay more attention to this year. The pictures above are of some flowers I originally had for one of my guests right before Thanksgiving, the…

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23.10.10 | Joanne Dibble | 4 Comments

lapis sky / shocking yellow / heliopsis!

About Flowers

it has been a dry fall, and the black gums and early maples are justbeginning to turn color. the trees have suffered from the dry july andaugust heat spell. some mid-aged red oaks look dead- leaves going fromgreen to brown in a week. a few showers along have kept the yard niceand the bonsai happy,…

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12.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

October Photos

About Flowers + Garden photos

Not much to view in the garden in terms of colorful blooms, but I took a ramble and captured some of the garden …. which I hope to write about soon. It is simply a case of being a little down and uninspired with the drought we are experiencing right now. I am not alone…

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29.06.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Wedding Flower Advice

About Flowers + do as I say + Places

“As much as I didn’t like my flowers at the time, I have with time, learned two important lessons. 1) don’t be talked into flowers that you don’t want, and write down those you do and 2) the flowers aren’t what make the day. As much as I love flowers, I’d rather have bad flowers…

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28.06.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

June Flowers

About Flowers + Garden photos + June

A sampling of some flowers that bloom in June, here in my Central Ohio garden. I had plenty of deep blue larkspur and mammoth-sized dill that came up in the vegetable garden. The heat caused most things to go by all too quickly, and we have now entered a seasonal lull in which the container…

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