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19.06.18 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Logistics

garden chores + spring + weeding

Spring season is always a matter of logistics when you live in a cold climate. In temperate Ohio we go from cold-can’t-do-anything conditions to hot-don’t-want-to-do-anything weather with only a fleeting spring in between. We can count on two months to get soil prepared and everything planted. Some years there may be some earlier breaks and…

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30.06.17 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

A Basic Guide To Essential Garden Tools For Beginners

garden basics + using garden tools

What, When, How To Use Garden Tools Just starting out as a new homeowner? Get the garden tools you need. Tips on which essentials a newbie gardener should buy. Hint: if it decorates a wall, you aren’t using it. | What Essential Tools Do I Need to Garden? There are an array of tools in…

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06.02.17 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

More for me than you, Garden Planning

General gardening + Landscape Design Know-How + weeding

I haven’t surfed garden blogs in forever, it seems. But today was different and I garnered some great ideas that I hope to put to work for me this year. We’ll see. It all depends on both how diligent I am and how much traveling I need to do. (Since I am the sole gardener,…

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17.02.15 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Late Winter Is Time To Prune

garden basics + Pruning Your Plants + using garden tools

Best Time To Prune Visualizing how to cut tree branches If we get a break in the weather (which we will, eventually), it will be ideal time to get the pruning tools out and clean up winter damage, trim out fruit trees, and cut back many clematis vines. Those that bloom on new wood are…

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25.11.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Winter Arrived Early

garden chores + November + Seasons

Blustery Day, Past Year’s Losses Today is briefly warmer and blustery with high winds and rain, but it is more like a January thaw than the beige autumn Indian summer that we might normally expect. I don’t know that there is a clear sense of “normal” in our gardens anymore. Still, the patterns of the…

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09.08.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Down And Dirty Weeding Tool List

Featured + garden basics + gardening tips + using garden tools

The Bare Essentials Some essentials when brand new I’ve done a lot of tweeting and writing about weeding this season. There are a couple of reasons for that including the unusually wonderful weather (from my perspective, anyway), and my desire to have my yard look like I actually garden, despite many trips to visit the…

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01.07.14 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

What I’m Weeding Out

garden chores + weeding

Catching Up With Summer Working Away At the Frontline I swore to myself I wouldn’t do this, but I miscalculated how much I wanted to spend time with grandkids (even though it meant numerous 9 hr. trips). I am now playing catch up with the garden weeds, long grass, and a veritable jungle out there….

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25.04.14 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Posted, A Short Garden Tip Video

garden basics + garden chores + spring

Mini-tutorial when you only have a minute On Care Of Ornamental Grass I wanted to add to the videos made for Ilona’s Garden Youtube channel. I like short tips videos, so I made one while showing my son how to cut down the leftovers from last season. I have so many chores that I am…

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05.03.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Chores For March, No Digging Yet

garden chores + How's the weather? + spring

Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn‘ buds on ice No real attempts at garden chores yet, but not everyone is like Ohio, still in the throes of winter. There were some blue skies, yesterday, however! I will likely remember this winter for a long time to come. On Ilona’s Garden some new pages were posted (1) a chores reminder…

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16.10.13 | Ilona Erwin | 5 Comments

The Ailing Weeder

Day in the life + weeding

That is me. I went on a marathon binge of weeding last week – the weather was so lovely and I was feeling full of zip and determination. I had missed the garden… it seemed that I was spending more time on the road and in the house and needed some of the rejuvenation of…

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I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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