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12.02.19 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

February Gardening, Last of Winter in the Flower Garden

How's the weather? + My Place

I’ve had plenty of winter this year, yessiree. It is mid-February and that means the worst is over and spring is on its way. Eventually. February gardening in Ohio usually means lots of waiting, unless you are starting your seeds inside. Then, under the lights you see sprouts of spring -just about when March is…

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Garden update

02.08.18 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Mid-Ohio Gardening Update

2018 + How's the weather?

The weather has proved unusual, and here is the impact for my garden; plus some jots about other notable conditions and effects. It has been far wetter than usual, and then there is the inverted effect of our temperatures… June was as miserable as any July-August might have been. The heat and humidity was horrible…

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Galanthus nivalis

07.03.18 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

In Touch with the Weather

How's the weather? + spring

A definite benefit of gardening is being in touch with the weather. It’s a necessity, and counters the tendency of a modern life to live in isolation from nature. Of course, mankind has always been in something of a struggle with natural forces; but that is just an explanation for why we complain so much…

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Viburnum 'Dawn' blooming

02.03.17 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

Observations on an Ohio Spring

Garden Stories and Memories + How's the weather?

We haven’t entered springtime officially, but tell the weather that! This has been a most mild winter, and Ohio experienced all time high temperature records for the month of February in 2017. It accelerated a climate phenomenon which, as a gardener, I look for each year. Most everyone know of the “Indian Summer” and “January…

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04.03.15 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

It Is Still Freezing, Cold, And Snowing

How's the weather? + March + 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 really don’t have any say in the weather, do we? It will…

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01.08.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Winding Up July

2014 + How's the weather?

I didn’t say “Hot enough for you?” once this month. Not that I am given to using that phrase, anyway, but the weather in Ohio could not have been more beautiful. We had “Polar vortex” in July. Normally I write off this month in terms of garden work. Only mad dogs and Midwesterners work in the heat…

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05.03.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Chores For March, No Digging Yet

garden chores + How's the weather? + spring

Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn‘ buds on ice No real attempts at garden chores yet, but not everyone is like Ohio, still in the throes of winter. There were some blue skies, yesterday, however! I will likely remember this winter for a long time to come. On Ilona’s Garden some new pages were posted (1) a chores reminder…

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02.03.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

My Mind’s In A Vortex or I can’t stop thinking about the weather

How's the weather? + Seasons + winter

March Snow 2014, the ragged edges of winter It seems to be the only thing that I center on anymore, when my mind turns to gardening. The Weather. There were residual bits of snow scattered around the yard today, and more ice and snow predicted for the next couple days. Lots of people talk about…

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30.06.12 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Weathering The Storm

2012 + How's the weather?

From Purdue’s Corn Site Friday was, brutally hot, and even in an air conditioned car, on my way to a Dr.’s appointment, my shirt became soaked from contact with the seat back. I had just finished watering my containers and a few plantings just an hour before, and still felt the clamp of the heated…

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29.12.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Goodbye 2011, I Hardly Knew Ye

garden chores + How's the weather?

Winter Day in February 2011 The year not only seems to have gone fast, but it seems a stranger in the night… passing with little recognizable in it. The weather was different, my goals were different, the holidays were different, and none seem connected to either past or present. I am sure none of that…

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