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03.10.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Is It Fall Already?

autumn + Garden Stories and Memories + Landscape Trees

Yesterday’s winds, today’s rain, and the smell that has been on the air tells me so. The asters blooming, the store displays burgeoning with mums (I bought two huge ones at Sam’s Club) also tell the undeniable story that summer has past. I still have tomatoes ripening on the vine, and they should continue to…

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26.10.15 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Display of Gourds Speaks The Language of Autumn

autumn + Home stuff

Brighten Up The Home With Fall Gourds Two seasons ago I bought some gourds for autumn display, “just ’cause“, which lead to this years crop from the discards. I am already planning the Thanksgiving centerpiece with some of those harvested fruits of the compost pile, and it inspired this post. Gourds come in all sorts…

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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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22.10.13 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Thinking Of Spring Colors My Autumn Thoughts

autumn + bulbs

Next Spring Fashion Colors Are Bright Pastels Let it never be said that Gardeners are not forward thinking people. Sure, we are slower on the uptake on the trendy and fad-driven, we like “slow” this and “slow” that, but we are quite forward thinking …perhaps even avant garde in other ways. Not all of us,…

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15.10.12 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Life Interferes With Gardening

autumn + Garden Stories and Memories

Foggy Autumn Morning In The Country Stretched Canvas Print by ilonagarden A Small Contemplation Life interferes with not just the gardening, but blogging, and hobbies and whole lots of other things . Even though those things are part of life. So, what is really meant when stating that these things interfere with life? Life is…

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10.10.12 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Sentiments of the Season, October

autumn + October

I don’t know if I end up thinking how gorgeous the days are more in spring, summer or autumn, but I know I’ve been thinking this thought a lot during the past few weeks of this autumn. I happened upon an older post about the Kigo of Japanese Haiku which celebrated late summer and started…

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02.10.12 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Underestimated Flowering Shrubs

Landscape Design Know-How + October

Witch Hazel ushers in Spring On the whole, deciduous, flowering shrubs get short shrift in modern gardens. We know about lilacs and weigelas, perhaps, but are often discouraged from planting them given “lack of seasonal interest” as the rationalization for such advice. It is true that some of them shine only when in bloom. Flowering…

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28.09.12 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Photo Shoot Em Up

2012 + September

Bridge over Denver Botanic stream Utah Sky Japanese Pond Arbor Pond Plants ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © 2012 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal. An excellent blog.

08.10.11 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

I took a Blog Vacation

October

I am in the 900 block of posts right now, 903 to be exact, and I made the first experimental blogpost on September 9th in 2003. Those were the days when I might post two or three things a day… in a freeform sort of way. The first one with any real content was later…

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20.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | 5 Comments

Autumn Morning Musings

2010 + autumn + Garden photos + October

Finally, the rain came, not to slake the thirst of the earth, but just to moisten the tongue. The month began with some of the mists and morning fog that often shrouds the morning of an autumn day in Ohio; the leaves dropped in mostly brown tones, and the chrysanthemums and asters came on smaller…

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