No, not me, the weather. I am amazed at the bloom on my apple and crabapple trees this year, the frost did not seem to have affected them. Of course with the weather as it is I am mostly looking at them through the window. As a friend mentioned to me, when I asked her […]
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Lovely Thoughts for People Who Grow
“There are many tired gardeners but I’ve seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad […]
Do Ye Mock Me?
Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year’s pleasant king;Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!– Spring by Thomas Nashe from Summer’s Last Will and Testament, 1600 That poem reminded me of the mockingbird that resides in my garden each year. This […]
A Beautiful Spring
This is turning out to be one of the most beautiful springs, with blooming times that seem to rush in upon each other. The weather has given us the full effect of trees and plants that often get ruined in Ohio’s fickle fluctuations. The only worry I might have is that things are a bit […]
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 storm. Winter dies hard this year, but I am hopeful that […]
Spring is in the air!
After a blustery week of freezing weather and snow, it is now a warm and melting weekend that makes me feel spring is just around the corner. I think I will plant some seeds mid-month of March… this year I would like to try some heirloom tomatoes and maybe daisies for the perennial gardens. I […]
