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Fire Pit Conversations

Ilona Erwin

How to bond as a family? Try some conversation starters around an open fire.

backyard+ Garden design ideas+ My Place Ilona Erwin

D-I-Y Mushroom Factor, F-Y-I

Ilona Erwin

Every home remodeler and renovator runs into it at some time, the dreaded mushrooming of a simple project into the monster money pit.

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My Rural Life

Ilona Erwin

My husband and I bought and started homesteading this place in the mid 1980’s. I had no skills, and plenty of dreams. I never managed to have that flock of sheep I envisioned, but instead raised a flock of children. That became my main crop. We all worked hard. I sure wish we had used […]

Day in the life+ My Place+ spring Ilona Erwin

A Nice Early Spring Visit To Inniswood

Ilona Erwin

I keep working on trying to make videos of garden subjects. Early spring in the morning meant a quiet visit with no distractions, as my husband and I walked around the garden.

March+ Places Ilona Erwin

Brand New Post On The New Site

Ilona Erwin

Here we are… the first post in a new season. It inspires me. The first inspiration is to update my garden as well. For years I have renovated, and renovation is always somehow lacking. I want to return to some of the joy that comes from creating something new. My idea is to redo some […]

Garden design ideas+ My Place Ilona Erwin

2014 Too Soon

Ilona Erwin

Lights among the plants Another way to say “Tempus Fugit”, it seems that we simply flew into the new year, with the holidays as almost a passing thought. I don’t think I’ve ever felt that a Christmas season had ever been as attenuated as this one. Few seem to have this view, and many are […]

2014+ Places+ winter Ilona Erwin

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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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