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Tomato Troubles

22.08.16 | August + gardening tips

June Garden Report

04.06.14 | 2014 + June

Lavender, Lavender, Where Art Thou?

20.05.14 | Featured + herbs + Plants + summer

August Lilies

14.08.13 | About Flowers + August + summer

Globe Thistles And Other Nice Looking Xeriscape Plants

16.07.13 | About Flowers + Featured + July
garden reading spot

07.10.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Online Garden Reading, Or What’s Wrong With Internet Gardening

An Armchair Gardener

Garden Project Online.com – Bible Seeds, Biblical Garden Seeds, Free Seeds, Bible Seeds, Bible Plant Seeds, Free Pictures, Bible, Garden Tours, A site after my own heart. This has the kind of encouraging prose and practical garden tips that just inspire you to “get going and get gardening”. It doesn’t seem to be often updated…

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05.10.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

October Day in the Life

Day in the life

It has been very cool, with frosts in the mornings this past week. The asters were somewhat disappointing this year due to whatever frizzled up the foliage and flowers. The garden has been lush due to all the rains, but some things don’t much like this. Petunias are very sorry looking without the usual Midwestern…

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30.09.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Different Mulches

garden basics

Mulch Fingerling potatoes possess distinct flavor was the headline,  and I was looking up how to use the fingerling potatoes I had bought to best advantage. While on the page I saw a notice on cocoa mulch. …Which led me to thinking about mulches. That is the topic for today’s post.   Mulches Just thought…

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23.09.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Not going to garden, just opinionate

Day in the life

Not going to garden much today, even though the day is perfect for it. I had eye surgery this morning and I don’t really feel like doing anything particularly. September Is Good for Planting September is the best month to plant and transplant. There has been just the right amount of rains keeping all the…

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dragonfly

22.09.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Little Moments in Time

Day in the life

Nice rainy day today. Yesterday my entymologist-to-be daughter captured a red-bodied dragonfly. It was really beautiful. She didn’t have her bug cage handy so we didn’t get to view it for very long. She also pointed out some fish in the water of the ditch. Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is…

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miscanthus grasses

20.09.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Grasses

Plants

Grasses I live in what is basically a savannah/grassland area. For me, my biggest weed problem has been invading grass and Canada thistles (and of course the ubiquitous dandelion). So why am I now investigating ? It is a Madison Avenue-type success story. A matter of exposing people to the value and use of certain…

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Rose Lake in Autumn

16.09.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Beautiful September

September

Great Weather for Garden Chores Beautiful September weather. Time to catch up on mowing, and control any new weed sprouts in the new beds. Dutch Hoe Ran over the weed sprouts lightly with a . This tool looks unimpressive , but when you run it over the dirt in a scraping action it really dispatches…

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15.09.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Damp And Rainy

Day in the life

Today is damp and rainy. Good for the new plantings, but after a whole summer of rain, not as welcome emotionally. We just aren’t used to this much rain in the Midwest. Lots of things are just a matter of what you expect and what you are used to. Buying New Plants Anyway, today I…

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13.09.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Wisdom

The Garden Effect : Soul

Garden Wisdom Today I discovered that I left the hose going all night and flooded the area around the pond. Glad I walked around the yard early! Yesterday I moved some plants out of the main garden to make room for the campanula, ‘Blue Clips ‘, in the front. I have no idea whether the…

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12.09.03 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Procrastination: Gardener’s Bane

Day in the life

I started out well today when planting the Viburnum, but that was it. I did manage to water the new plantings. I just have too many irons in the fire. I want to do all things well….but it is not happening. I have shrubs that I have *got* to plant and so much in the…

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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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