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22.04.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Fickle Weather

2009 + garden chores + Garden design ideas + How's the weather?

Today couldn’t make up it’s mind whether it wanted to be a sunny day or a stormy one. I got ready to go out and garden, after getting home from an appointment, took time to talk over somethings with one of my kids… and boom! cold wind and rain moved in. It has been hail…

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18.01.09 | Ilona Erwin | 6 Comments

Winter’s Aftermath

2009 + How's the weather? + winter + winter chores

We don’t think too much about it while everyone is trading temperature reports and talking about record breaking lows, but at some point the clash between the weather we are experiencing and the cold tolerance of our plants will become something to reckon with. We won’t know just how hard our winter was on our…

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24.12.08 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Winter For Sure

bulbs + garden chores + How's the weather? + winter

It’s winter for sure here in the Heartland. Horribly cold the other day and a glaze of ice tonight. Hopefully everyone is tucked away in their homes around a warm hearth 🙂 My indoor bulb pans are doing well, and the poinsettias are still alive 😉 So far so good with my Rosemary tree. This…

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06.12.08 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

The Sadness of Gardening

garden chores + General gardening + How's the weather?

It is not all beauty and light, you know. I have had friends say they wanted to see the garden, and it got me thinking. My initial response is always..” Oh, what my garden used to be…” remembering times when it held first priority in the thrill of making a garden and having a life…

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10.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Perfect Day in an Unpredictiable Season

2008 + garden chores + How's the weather? + June

Today has been what I consider a perfect day: blue skies, puffy clouds, gentle breezes, happy plants. Warm, quiet, with the scent of roses and mock orange wafting through the air… with no discernible demands. I did a little weeding this morning and that was it. Unlike yesterday, where I worked myself into painful oblivion…

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03.05.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Wild And Windy

garden chores + How's the weather? + Seasons + spring

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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07.03.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

March Gives A Lion’s Roar

garden chores + How's the weather? + March + snow + winter

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…

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21.01.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

In the Deep Freeze

An Armchair Gardener + garden chores + Garden Roses + How's the weather? + January + Vegetable garden

Deep freeze While we are in the deep freezer here in Ohio, I have been setting up (ever so slowly) my new computer. I find myself planning my garden season in the year to come, and am hopeful that my husbands newly mentioned interest comes to fruition. He seems most interested in the vegetable garden,…

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