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March

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: March, Places

A Nice Early Spring Visit To Inniswood

Tagged With: garden video, Inniswood Gardens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIh6W5IVgzQ 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. … [Read more...] about A Nice Early Spring Visit To Inniswood

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: How's the weather?, March, winter

It Is Still Freezing, Cold, And Snowing

Tagged With: cold, garden tips, snow, winter

Yes, playing with Picmonkey. What else on the rainy/snowy/frozen days we are having? Housework, you say? What is that? Yes, the weather again. We are still in the throes of winter. Throes I say! Everyone says they are tired of it, but we … [Read more...] about It Is Still Freezing, Cold, And Snowing

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: March, Places

The Butterflies Are Coming

Tagged With: butterflies, Columbus, Franklin Park Conservatory, Ohio, things to see

The butterfly exhibition is coming to Franklin Park Conservatory. Starting on March 19th this year, the Conservatory will host Blooms and Butterflies and start it off with a Butterfly Carnival.This exhibition is one of the most entertaining ways to … [Read more...] about The Butterflies Are Coming

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: 2011, March

Soaking Wet Ground

Cold Climate Gardening's Kathy Purdy calls it The Mud Season, and it has hit Ohio with a vengeance this year. Right now in our area it is more like Pond Season which will morph into Mud Season.For mommies, that means trying to stave off the … [Read more...] about Soaking Wet Ground

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: March

March and Its Wind

It is March now. In the laziest of months the prairie winds blow wild here, but in March they really let loose. Only a blue moon hurricane does worse. You have to develop a sort of tolerance for these winds, something my husband never seems to have … [Read more...] about March and Its Wind

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden chores, How's the weather?, March, snow, winter

March Gives A Lion’s Roar

The short respite of warm weather gave a glimpse of the emerging daffodil's speared leaves piercing through the bare ground, but winter's icy hands are loathe to let us go and has employed the March Lion to fiercely roar with gusts of a blizzard … [Read more...] about March Gives A Lion’s Roar

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden chores, March, spring

A Few Pruning Tips

Pruning TreesGood Pruning!We are at the end of the season for heavy pruning, which should be done before the plants break dormancy and begin to leaf out. But for those who still have time to prune, and for those jobs which can be accomplished later … [Read more...] about A Few Pruning Tips

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: March, spring

March Ends Like a Lamb

With all the unseasonably warm weather now, I have ventured into the garden to do chores that were on the list. First, the pruning of suckers and crossing branches. I took care of the Prairie Fire crabapples, one had suckers to clear out, but the … [Read more...] about March Ends Like a Lamb

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