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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.

16.02.07 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Making New Plants: Lavender

Garden Perennial Plants + Plants

This post is for Kim, aka Black Swamp Girl, blogging @ “A Study in Contrasts” who, by the way, has some of the loveliest photography- I am green with envy over that! Not so good way to be green;). She indicated an interest in the how-to of making starts of lavender. There is the “best…

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25.08.06 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Last of August Blooming

About Flowers + August

August is fading, it’s farewell lost on whispering wind while the Labor Day weekend is flashed on the screen of our minds. People are busy with their new school years and have already said their goodbyes to summer, the last of August is simply a tags end sale of afterthoughts. But there are blooms and…

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01.05.05 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Wedding Flowers: Some Books to Help

About Flowers + Garden book reviews

The wedding flowers turned out beautifully, the only thing wanting was a pair of extra hands or two….. because doing the floral work for a wedding is a very big job! I worked like crazy, and I’ll have to say more about the details later, but I wanted to recommend two of the most helpful…

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25.10.04 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

April Wedding Flowers

About Flowers + April

I found a picture that shows the lantern centerpiece idea. My own interpretation will use a couple moss covered mounds to pick the flowers into. Since the wedding date was moved to april, theoretically the flower arrangement should become easier. Lantern centerpiece  Here are the flowers available for April arrangements:AlliumArtichokeAlstromeria Babies Breath Bells of Ireland…

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23.05.04 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Scented Garden

Garden Roses

It is the time of roses and peonies, two of the most beautifully redolent scents of my late spring garden. These are old fashioned plants, the roses are the varieties William Baffin, Zepherine Drouhin, Therese Bugnet. The Oenothera speciosa and veronicas are blooming, as well. The veronicas are puny this year. Due to so much…

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30.04.04 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Fickle Spring, Ephemeral Beauty

Garden Roses

It is cold, then hot, and this coming week will be cold again. Today my family helped me plant a few more things. I really appreciate it, since I don’t have my strength back, yet; but they are getting a little tired of planting my trees and bushes with me. We put in a ‘Fat…

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07.03.04 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Roses + Landscape Trees

Tra-la-la. I bought two trees today. They were a special deal at the front of a discount store. Looked decent planted in a plastic pot of promising root size. They are Eastern Redbuds, for the front of the property in proximity to the bronzy leafed crabapples. My previous experience of these was the tree in…

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03.03.04 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

What are your ten top choices for perennial plantings?

10 Best + About Flowers

If I was reduced to ten plants around which to plan the gardening season, which would I choose?

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