Not here, on this blog. I’m not going to rewrite the whole thing. but if you are interested in my tales from the garden you might like “Garden:Fail“. … Because I’m not perfect;) I have also written a few things on autumn clematis and “What to do when your garden gets away from you“. I’ll […]
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Garden Maturity
I’ve been a long time in this present garden, now. Long enough to reckon with mature plant sizes and the times I broke the rules on proper spacing. There are a few situations that I truly rue not paying attention to height and spread, and in one I was taken by surprise. I had planted […]
True Confessions: Gardening Can Frustrate You
We like to talk about how much fun gardening is, because the giant portion of the experience of gardening is full of pleasure and satisfaction, but I had a couple days that remind me how frustrating it can be. First, is the frenetic mowers. They want to get it done, those nice flat sheets of […]
Gardening Melts Pounds
In the heat we’ve had lately, gardening will literally melt pounds. You might know I started working out at Curves this year, and it really helps in the gardening activities- because gardening is labor. A labor of love surely, but labor all the same. It wasn’t until my gardening season started in earnest that I […]
July Problems
With all the rain, and believe me I am so grateful that I don’t live in the areas prone to flooding, which have been under watch while more rain just keeps coming my ground is soggy. Truth be told, everything is damp and clammy. And the creepy crawlies are emerging.Earwigs… those horrors of the night… […]
Immigration Policies, Horticulturally Speaking
I recently read that there is an oak blight newly introduced to the East Coast in addition to the ash tree crisis of the Emerald borer. This is an oak wilt that is caused by a fungus under the bark. It grows until suddenly the entire tree is killed. At least that is the gist […]
