© 2010 Ilona’s Garden Journal.All rights reserved. You are going to buy some tulip and daffodil bulbs, soon…. or you find a great new shrub on sale, which you snap up and want to situate in your garden…. now, are you going to remember the names of those plantings five years from now? How about […]
Helps For Garden Journals
How to keep a journal, types, and resources for DIY garden journals. Many of those resources are free.
2 New Series
Garden Center Scene This year I have visited many of the garden centers, greenhouses and nurseries in my area of Central Ohio. It inspired a decision to do a series of posts to highlight the ones that I like and tell you more about them. That is coming right up, since I have been (after […]
A Little Something For You: Garden Journal Template
I came across a resource that may interest some of you. If you would like to start a garden journal, but don’t want to invest mucho dinero, then you may like one of these online garden journal templates. Even if you don’t wish to use the printouts, you might look at the type of info […]
Busy December
Every season has its busyness, but holiday preparing and plans always seem to compound it for December. The garden waits quietly for me- I still spend some time on it but it moves far down the task list this month. This season there are different birds in the garden, and it can be fun to […]
Easy Botanical Project
This would be fun for kids to make, for cards, or as a base to a collage project. See the original article for the entire “how-to”. clipped from buildmakecraftbake.com How-to: Hammered flower and leaf prints I learned this technique, which makes an image using the natural dyes in plants, from my college roommate Sarah. It’s […]
The Dip
In this case, the dip is personal. Do you ever go through periods when you just don’t have the “get up and go” in your gardening? I’m kind of like that right now. The weather is perfect for gardening and maybe I can get out there and accomplish those many jobs on my list. But […]




