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
March
It Is Still Freezing, Cold, And Snowing
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
The Butterflies Are Coming
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
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
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
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
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
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
