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  • Category: 10 Best
    • 10 Useful Gardening Tips For Spring
    • Do You Grow Herbs? 10 Reasons To Love Them
    • 10 Cool Season Annual Flowers To Plant
    • August Gardening: Ten Suggestions
    • What are your ten top choices for perennial plantings?
  • Category: About Flowers
    • Hawaiian Flower Arrangements
    • Flowers Of May: Bearded Iris
    • Daylilies Grow On You
    • August Lilies
    • Globe Thistles And Other Nice Looking Xeriscape Plants
    • True Lilies
    • The Vase of Flowers
    • lapis sky / shocking yellow / heliopsis!
    • October Photos
    • Wedding Flower Advice
    • June Flowers
    • HOT!!
    • Arrange the July garden around lilies
    • Shirley Poppies, Papaver rhoeas
    • If You Like To Dry Flowers
    • Four O’Clocks
    • Rural Observations, Mid September
    • Hot, Hazy, Lazy August
    • Inniswood Garden
    • The Long Hot Summer
    • Containers That Caught My Eye
    • Weekend Garden Report
    • Pelargoniums- or “geraniums” to you
    • The Last of August Blooming
    • Wedding Flowers: Some Books to Help
    • April Wedding Flowers
    • Category: Annual flowers
      • What’s So Great About Annual Flowers?
    • Category: Garden Perennial Plants
      • Tip for Blooming Peonies
      • How To Grow Lavender For Its Heavenly Scent
      • Do You Like Lavender?
      • You’ll Rue The Day…
      • Siberian Iris, Hardy Elegance
      • Making New Plants: Lavender
    • Category: Garden Roses
      • Whetstone Park of Roses
      • Expert Rose Advice
      • Heirloom Roses in June
      • Roses in June
      • Some Flowers from the June Garden
      • The Scented Garden
      • Fickle Spring, Ephemeral Beauty
  • Category: An Armchair Gardener
    • Compilation of Past Mini-Posts of 2003
    • Thoughts from the Deep Freezer
    • Flowers that Monet Grew In Giverny
    • Life In Robin’s Nest: A Garden of Many Colors
    • Here Is Hope For A Beautiful Spring
    • The Requirements of Age: Updating
    • The Amateur Speaks About Garden Enthusiasm
    • Great Garden Blog Reading
    • Responsible and Remarkable Resource
    • What’s Wrong With Gardening Today?
    • Winter Wandering – Or Now Is Not The Time To Get Dirty
    • Visit Hocking Hills- Lonadawn
    • Weekend Reading
    • We Have History Together
    • New Garden Design: a book review
    • An Affirmative
    • Garden Magazines R.I.P.?
    • Garden Bloggers, Future Past
    • Gothic Gardening
    • Kitchen Garden Revival
    • Old Posts Never Die
    • Soon- the holidays
    • Gotta Run!
    • Garden Magazines
    • Revisiting Two Garden Catalogs
    • In the Deep Freeze
    • The Gardener’s Starting Block
    • Christmas Eve
    • Fresh Coat of Snow and New Aspects and Prospects
    • Book Review: the Ohio Gardening Guide
    • Book Review: English Cottage Gardening for American Gardeners
    • Herb Gardens
    • Light-hearted Gardening
    • Busy, busy, but trying to keep out of the heat!
    • Dust, a poem by Celia Thaxter
    • A New Favorite, shhhh, it’s Illegal
    • Resume Blogging- End Hiatus in July 2006
    • growing old in the garden
    • A Little Blurb
    • Gardener In Winter
    • Making A Garden Journal
    • Online Garden Reading, Or What’s Wrong With Internet Gardening
    • Category: Garden blogs
      • Time In A Garden, Using Garden Blogs, And Museum Quality
      • Nature Proves God Has A Strange Sense Of Humor
      • Thinking About Rethinking
      • Tree Notes
      • Ken Druse and Garden Culture Direction
      • A Southern Garden Blog
      • Humdinger Blog
      • More Design Thoughts
      • Listened to Joe the Gardener
      • Seeing with a fresh eye
      • Dave’s Maples
      • Will This Blog Make It To The Next Millenium?
      • Delightful Photos
      • Coneflower Gardens Make Progress
      • Thursday Thank You
      • What Makes A Blog Better?
      • Everyone’s Thinking: Vegetables!
      • Down Home With Granny
      • Thanks Tina & Friends
      • When I Buy a Plant: What I Want
      • Collect All The Neat Tips for Gardening With Kids
      • Small Yard of Great Ideas
      • Why a garden blog?
      • Measuring Monarchs
      • Mr Brown Thumb is back! ..and other gardenblog highlights
      • New Things
      • Jessica’s Pictures Tell All
      • Garden Fairies
      • Building Love For Gardening
      • Garden Web Community
      • Photo Essays
      • Win A Book
      • Choice Sightings
      • Results: Great Garden Blog Poll
      • Meet a Good Neighbor
      • Virtual Gardening
      • In A Garden
      • Inspirations
      • Time to Vote in Mouse & Trowel Awards
      • Making Rounds::Garden Blogs
      • Mouse & Trowel Awards
      • Catching Up On Garden Blogging
      • Cold Climate Reading
      • ::: an eclectic garden :::
      • Gardening, Global Warming, and El Nino
      • Garden blogging voices, new and old
      • Garden Rant: the world according to gardeners
      • My, my How the gardenblogging has changed
      • What Kind of Flower Am I? What?
      • Garden Taste Test
      • The First and Second Post
    • Category: Garden book reviews
      • Under the Surface
      • Not The Emily Dickinson You Knew (but she DID garden)
      • Gardening with Prairie Plants
      • Tracy DiSabato-Aust
    • Category: Garden photos
      • Blooming In The Garden
      • An Ohio View of Spring
      • Chicagoland Visit
      • Roses Scenting the Air
      • More Late Spring Pictures… and Thanks
      • Late May Flowers
      • Winter’s Day, Snow Pictures
      • Autumn Snapshots
      • Photos for Fun
      • Old Rose
      • GGW Blog Photo Contest
      • April Composite Photo
      • A Fine Gift For Someone Special
      • A Common Point of View
      • Promises Fulfilled
      • Fabulous Photo From The Deep Middle
      • Success Story
      • New Pictures Soon
      • Garden Photos
      • Early Spring Pictures
      • My Lilacs
      • Continuing Tour of Innis Gardens
      • Don’t Miss
      • Picture This
    • Category: Interesting Facts for Gardeners
      • Old Fashioned Gardening
      • Discussion on What Versailles May Teach a Modern Homeowner
      • Spring Fever Struck
      • Garden Fashion – New Trend
      • Community Farming Video
      • Helping Your Honeybees
      • Symbols of Plenty
      • Gardener’s Are Green
      • Tomato Issues
      • Garden Bloggers- What’s To Like?
      • Why Are Barns Red? Ever Wonder?
  • Category: Day in the life
    • HELLLOOOO, From The Other Side
    • Big Things I’m Doing Differently in 2018
    • Snippets of Gardening, February’s Mercies
    • This Is What I’m Doing in the Garden
    • I knew I should have taken pictures
    • Characteristics of a Gardener
    • Threats Of Winter, But Spring-Like
    • Unusual Becomes The Usual
    • It Is More Than Normal
    • My Rural Life
    • Finally. I Have Chickens
    • And Now It Is Arctic, But My Home Is Cozy
    • The Ailing Weeder
    • Blog Conference Revives Old Blogger
    • New Weeding Tools
    • Where Should I Plant This Rose?
    • Christmas Seems Far Away
    • The Garden Blooms, With Flowers and Ticks
    • Went to the Rose Garden
    • When The Garden Becomes An Ogre
    • Sundays
    • September 6 Garden Journal Entry
    • Garden Planning in February
    • Rain Outside And Houseplants Inside
    • The Small Stuff
    • A few notes on nothing particular
    • October Day in the Life
    • Not going to garden, just opinionate
    • Little Moments in Time
    • Damp And Rainy
    • Procrastination: Gardener’s Bane
    • Category: Garden Stories and Memories
      • Observations on an Ohio Spring
      • Found Flowers
      • Garden Advice: Keep A Close Watch
      • When Is Garden Knowledge “Extensive”?
      • Looking Back: The Renter’s Garden
      • News In A Nutshell
      • Why Your Plants Die
      • Post Highlights … Time Travel Through 8 Years Of The Journal
      • Gardens I Love
      • Some Thoughts
      • thoughts: one gardener’s journey
      • Live and Learn: Things This Garden Taught Me
      • My Rural Garden
      • Earliest Inkling: Garden Plants of My Childhood
      • Thrift, Daffs and the Three sisters
      • Old Fashioned Things
      • “REAL-izing” visions and plans
      • My Garden Roots
      • Shared Views
      • Spring Blooming
      • The Frugal Gardener
      • Repostings:The Sycamore Story
      • Chill in the Air
      • Mr. Brown Thumb’s Lightening Bug
    • Category: the rural story
      • Chickenhawk Attack!
      • Thought of Raising Peafowl?
  • Category: Featured
    • National Seed Swap Day in January
    • What Makes a Low Maintenance Garden?
    • Create A Child’s Garden, Grow Love For Nature
    • I Found Out About “She Sheds” And Coincidentally, About Friends
    • Rural Landscape
    • The Down And Dirty Weeding Tool List
    • Lavender, Lavender, Where Art Thou?
    • Ready To Eat Local? How About Slow Gardening?
    • Seeds For Trial Garden
  • Category: Garden design ideas
    • All Season Garden Color with Bold Foliage Effects, Masterful Contrasts
    • Cottage Garden Revival
    • Interesting Sissinghurst Video Showing Old Fashioned Techniques
    • Pretty Cottage Garden Accessories
    • Brand New Post On The New Site
    • We Went South …and now I’m wondering
    • Too Much Candy Is Probably Not A Good Thing
    • 2 New Series
    • Our Prairie Home
    • Color Harmony: July Pink
    • A White Garden or Moon Garden
    • Dawes: Landscaping Help
    • Imagination In the Garden
    • Saving Viewsheds
    • Making Moss
    • Once Upon A Time: the lavender walk
    • Category: backyard
      • Garden Furniture Brightens Up Outdoor Living
      • Fire Pit Conversations
    • Category: Containers and planters
      • Flowering Hanging Planters
      • Garden Art- I Mean, Really.
      • Summer Containers in Bloom
      • Memories of June
      • The Busy Season
      • Flowering Kale
      • Saturday Was Slave Day OR Ilona’s Terrible Awful No-Good Day
      • State of the Garden: the lavender hedge
      • Cold Damage
    • Category: Landscape Design Know-How
      • Tips for Ornamental Trees Landscape Success
      • Ornamental Garden Trees For A Small Yard
      • Plant Fads: Mugo Pines and Stella D’Oro Daylilies
      • Making Your First Garden Plan
      • Underestimated Flowering Shrubs
      • Garden Thoughts on a Garden Voice
      • Spring Pinks 2011
      • Purple Leaf Sand Cherry: Short-lived Shrub
      • Considering Birds
  • Category: General gardening
    • More for me than you, Garden Planning
    • Gardening and the Younger Generation
    • Best In Season
    • Pushing the Planting Envelope
    • It’s Been A Hard Day’s Work…
    • The Good Earth
    • Good Neighbor Gardening
    • Why A Gardener Loves Slavery To A Garden
    • My Garden Philosophy
    • Garden Renovations
    • Gardening IS Exercise
    • Gifting the Gardener
    • Mission Accomplished
    • Garden Transitions
    • And So, It Ends
    • A Day In The Life
    • July has its own poetry
    • Summertime Blues
    • July Problems
    • The Garden In July
    • Garden Thoughts
    • The Garden of Life
    • Marathon Gardening
    • Thoughts About Garden Catalogs
    • Category: do as I say
      • Moneysaving Garden Tips for Home Gardeners
      • The De-clutter Journey
      • Not Your Usual Tomato Post
      • Does Everyday Design Matter?
      • Were The Tomatoes Worth It in 2010?
      • Easy Way to Journal Your Garden
      • Finally: Affirmed in Saving Magazines!
      • Garden Maturity
      • Frugal Gardening
      • The Dip
      • Raised Beds
      • Gardening Melts Pounds
      • Gardening is Childsplay
    • Category: garden basics
      • A Basic Guide To Essential Garden Tools For Beginners
      • Landscaping 101, A Mini Course
      • Late Winter Is Time To Prune
      • Posted, A Short Garden Tip Video
      • Brush Up On The Basics
      • When Should I Transplant My Garden Plant?
      • Bloom Where You Are Planted
      • Nomenclature to just keep us on our toes.
      • Here’s the Poop on Manure
      • Book Review: The Kitchen Garden
      • I beg to differ,Stu: or Watering Time Matters
      • Making More Plants
      • Scenic Nursery: Bedding Plant Planting
      • Different Mulches
      • Category: seed starting
        • When Thoughts Turn To…Plants
        • I Learned Something – You Can Too
        • Seed Collecting Video
        • Hot and Hazy
        • I am starting to think like Spring
    • Category: garden chores
      • Garden Logistics
      • Winter Arrived Early
      • What I’m Weeding Out
      • Garden Chores For March, No Digging Yet
      • Canadian Thistles, Are They the Bane of your Garden?
      • White Rabbit Gardening
      • Goodbye 2011, I Hardly Knew Ye
      • Mid July Chores
      • Today People Are Looking For…
      • Springtime Garden Tips
      • Trees I Grow
      • State of the Nation’s Gardens
      • Questions From The Gallery
      • Miscellaneous Garden Tips
      • too * * * * HOT
      • Old Time Advice
      • Satisfaction of a Hard Day’s Work
      • Let’s Start Seeds
      • The Sadness of Gardening
      • September’s Garden Tips
      • Dead Leaves
      • 5 Tips to Improve Clay Soil
      • Wild And Windy
      • Do You Dig Your Soil?
      • March Gives A Lion’s Roar
      • Weathering the Heat Wave
      • Tomato tip
      • A Few Pruning Tips
      • Job Log
      • Winter Is Good for…..
      • when should i start my garden
      • Gardening Column by Brian Minter
      • Fall Garden Cleanup
      • Category: Pruning Your Plants
      • Category: using garden tools
      • Category: weeding
    • Category: Garden soil
      • Things Your Garden Will Thank You For
      • Garden Therapy
      • dirt#2- McAdditives
      • making dirt #1: green manure
      • Humus Equation
      • Q&A From Keywords
      • I ♥ Peat Moss
      • Now’s A Good Time To…
    • Category: gardening tips
      • If You Need To Save On Water In The Garden
      • Christmas Gardening
      • Answering more of your questions
      • Winter’s Damage- Is There Anything I Can Do?
      • Garden Hints and Tips #457
      • How Did I Get Here Again? Advice For Older Gardeners
      • Inspiration: getting seeds started
      • Tree news
      • I love sunflowers
      • Diatoms
      • Bad Bugs Bagged
      • super organic bugspray ( weedkiller ~ i hope~)
      • Artisan asparagus
      • Seed Starting on the Cheap
      • Good Gardening Ideas Gone Bad
      • Feeling Like October
      • Fast Grow the Weeds: Fruit Fly Catcher
      • Garden Trivia
      • Seed-starting, January thoughts
      • Pruning Your Mugo Pine
    • Category: the REAL world
      • When Gardeners and Their Gardens Grow Old
      • A Curmudgeonly Gardener
      • another comment that grew
      • The Dilettante’s Lament
      • True Confessions: Gardening Can Frustrate You
      • The February Melt
  • Category: Home stuff
    • Category: Frugal Tips
      • Visit An Arboretum And Save Dollars On Your Landscape
      • More Than Pretty
      • If you would like to follow more of my adventures…
      • Gardening, Greening, and Saving Society
      • Chickens in the City Controversy
      • Oh Darling- You Will LOVE This
      • The Gardening Bubble
      • Impulse Buying
    • Category: Garden crafts
      • Furnishing Grandma’s Fairy House
      • Out Of Your Gourd Gardening
      • Grandma Can Make Fairy Houses From Forest Finds
  • Category: Keeping a Garden Journal
    • Scrapbooking Garden Journal
    • New Sources For Garden Journals
    • Do You Think Of Your Garden Journal As A Tool?
    • What Are Your Garden Plans For 2012?
    • How a Homeowner Can Use a Garden Journal
    • A Little Something For You: Garden Journal Template
    • Easy Botanical Project
    • Online Gardening Notebooks
    • 18 Ideas for Your Garden Journal
    • Overcast Days, Dark and Stormy Nights
    • A Garden Journal
    • Print Your Own Garden Journal
    • Journaling Again
    • short thoughts
    • Garden Journal Lists
  • Category: Places
    • Pickets: Seagrove’s Secret Little Garden
    • Inniswood Garden : A Lovely Place To Visit
    • Top 10 Gardeners Destinations in Central Ohio
    • Category: My Place
      • Am I In The Wrong Place?
      • New Project At Hand- A Prairie Spot
  • Category: Plants
    • Old-Fashioned Nuisance Plants
    • Hostas Never Jade, 5 Top Choices
    • Beauty Bush, Kolkwitzia amabilis
    • Plant Blacklist : Aegopodium podagraria
    • Le Dent de Lion
    • Grasses
    • Category: bulbs
      • I Have A Thing For Bicolor Bulbs, Especially Tulips
      • How To Plant Dutch Bulbs For Fabulous Spring Flowers
      • Low, Low Maintenance Spring Bulb Garden, Nothing Easier
      • Growing Indoor Flowers In December
      • Sweet Scents Of Spring Arrive With The Lily Of The Valley
      • What Is The Big Deal About Bulbs In The Garden?
      • My Daffodils Photo Collage
      • The Early Flowers
      • Daffodils
      • Five Steps to Dazzling Daffodils
      • Winter For Sure
      • October’s End
      • Answering Your Question
      • Past Posts: the Good Stuff
      • Tulip Trials
      • Ritual of Planting Spring Bulbs
    • Category: Garden shrubs
      • Late August Good For Choosing And Planting Shrubs
      • Hard Decisions
      • Lonicera Fragrantissima
      • Purple Leaf Sand Cherry, Prunus x cistena
      • Category: Mugo pines
    • Category: herbs
      • Herb Plant Information
      • Just A Note
      • How Handy!
    • Category: Landscape Trees
      • My Chores And Prairiefire Crabapple
      • Flowering Trees For Spring
      • Mugo Pines: When to Trim and Prune
      • July and the days are steamy….
      • Emerald Ash Borer
  • Category: Seasons
    • Solace of the Garden
    • Zen-Zeitgeist – a spate of Japonica
    • Mud Season
    • Delicacies of Spring
    • Sow In Hope
    • Extreme 2007
    • Category: autumn
      • Is It Fall Already?
      • Display of Gourds Speaks The Language of Autumn
      • Thinking Of Spring Colors My Autumn Thoughts
      • Life Interferes With Gardening
      • Sentiments of the Season, October
      • I Enjoy Squirrels From Afar
      • My Autumn #1
      • Without Words: Daytrip to Conkles Hollow
      • Highbanks Photos
      • inklings of autumn
      • Ten Autumn Features
      • Fall Colors Fading
      • Container Gardening All Year
      • The Beauty of the Ephemeral
      • The Garden Blogger Fall Color Project
      • Apple Recipes
      • Pyracantha, Friend or Foe?
      • Woodpile and woodsmoke….Looking toward winter
      • Apple Cider Time
      • September Poetry
      • Autumn Thoughts
      • Autumn Harvests
      • Autumn Abundance Recipes
      • I Love September
      • Savoring The Autumn
      • Roses
      • Autumn and Orchards
      • Autumn, Rest and Reaping
      • White Christmas
      • Lunar Eclipse and Colder Weather
      • My Leaf Vacuum/Chipper
      • Robert Frost ‘Storm Fear’
      • October State of the Garden
      • Fall Color in My Garden from Surprising Sources
      • Category: November
        • Facing Winter
        • Who Is Master?
        • An Indian Summer Thanksgiving
        • Thanksgiving Time
        • November Heats Up
        • Rural Observations 11/08
        • The Dark Side
        • Leaf Day
        • Indian Summer
        • When I woke today
        • I’m Not Gardening
      • Category: October
        • I took a Blog Vacation
        • Autumn Days- Autumn Day Trips
        • October Selection of Poems
        • October in Poem
      • Category: September
        • Summer Sunshine in a Flower
        • September Poems
        • Beautiful September
    • Category: Christmas
      • Gifts for The Jolly Gardener, New Edition 2016
      • Gifts For The Jolly Gardener
    • Category: How's the weather?
      • February Gardening, Last of Winter in the Flower Garden
      • In Touch with the Weather
      • It Is Still Freezing, Cold, And Snowing
      • My Mind’s In A Vortex or I can’t stop thinking about the weather
      • Ohio Has A Summer-Just In The Nick Of Time
    • Category: spring
      • Making Garden Video
      • Spring Flip Flops
      • Reconnecting With The Earth
      • Spring’s Watershed
      • Early Spring
      • Garden Report : March’s End
      • Garden Work Between the Raindrops
      • Do Ye Mock Me?
      • Too many irons…
      • Thoughts on a Spring Garden
      • moss graffiti
      • Strengthening Those Loins
      • Category: April
        • April in the Garden, One of the Busiest Times
        • Plant Your Apples Now
        • April Chores, April Thoughts, April Sights
        • April Poetry
        • Frozen Assets
      • Category: March
        • A Nice Early Spring Visit To Inniswood
        • The Butterflies Are Coming
        • March and Its Wind
        • March Ends Like a Lamb
      • Category: May
    • Category: summer
      • Endless Summer Hydrangea, 2010 Season
      • Knee Deep in June
      • Summer Calls
      • Something In Summer
      • Summer Poem
      • Garden Update August 2008
      • Sweet Corn Time
      • Summertime is for Reading Books
      • Summer Poems
      • The Heat Wave
      • Rural Report
      • The Heat Is On
      • Fine Summer Days
      • Category: August
        • Tomato Troubles
        • August is time to divide and plant perennials
        • Flowering Kale
        • Peonies in my Garden
        • Dividing Daylilies
      • Category: July
        • My Ohio Garden Resumes The Usual Summer Program
        • A Japanese Beetle Plague
        • Mowing and Weeding
        • Rural Observations
      • Category: June
        • Garden Update -June 08
        • The Bless-ed Rain
    • Category: winter
      • Winterizing The Garden, Putting Pots And Containers To Bed
      • It is Springlike
      • Winter’s Meeting
      • Ten Winter Features : Deciduous
      • Winter- I am so over it
      • Ohio Weather!
      • From inside the deep freeze…
      • Siftings
      • For A Cold Winter’s Eve
      • Christmas Fragrance
      • brrrrr
      • ReFreeze
      • Category: December
        • Gingerbread Houses
        • Dreaming of a White Christmas
        • White or Green?
      • Category: February
        • Everyone Talks About The Weather
        • Mythical Spring
        • Bits of February Trivia
        • Odd Thing Or Two About This Late Winter Time of Year
        • Hellebore Happiness
        • Winter Came Late
        • Oh. So Now It Snows
      • Category: January
        • Gardening in January
        • I was going to garden…
        • Winter’s Second Entrance
      • Category: snow
        • snow day in georgia
        • Winter’s Blast
      • Category: winter chores
        • A Robert Frost Sort of Evening
  • Category: The Garden Effect : Soul
    • Nature Will Have Her Way
    • Update, Philosophical Distractions, Life
    • Do We Really Need To Dumb Down Gardening?
    • Some Lessons Are Sad Ones
    • Amazing Collection of Garden Art from Creative Artist
    • Time passes, blogs move on….
    • all creation begins with a seed
    • Can You Feel It? Fall!
    • Does It Ever Stop “Being Busy”?
    • In celebration of the spring rain
    • Absolutely beautiful gardening days
    • Garden Wisdom
    • Category: Garden Quotations
      • Signs of Spring
      • Rattling Cages At Christmas – Anti Lawn Folks
      • Gladys Tabor’s Wry Yankee Wit
      • Frost at Midnight
      • Thoughts for an Autumn Day
      • A Bit Of Garden Wisdom
      • Thoughts
      • Lovely Thoughts for People Who Grow
      • Wisdom In the Garden Online
      • Need to Find Purpose?
      • St. Patrick’s Blessing
      • Growing Wise in the Garden
      • St. Francis Joke All About Gardens
  • Category: Uncategorized
    • Wayback in Ilona Garden Time
    • Trouble with Hiring Garden Help
    • Are Fairy Gardens As Popular As They Once Were?
    • On The Social Media Front
    • Video Bits
    • Entering The No Frost Zone
    • Winter Walk
    • SPRING BULBS 101 -extended
    • Weather Is The Topic Of Conversation
    • Announcement- But I don’t know why I’m so excited!
    • The Big Chill: It was a Late Spring
    • Post Script
    • The Garden Year Perspective
    • Dog Troubles
    • The Holidays Are Coming
    • Did I mention photography?
    • Denver Botanic Garden Daytrip
    • Blogging For 9 Years This Month
    • Peek-a-Boo Garden Blogging
    • A Little Lost
    • Garden Thoughts
    • Inspiring English Garden Advice
    • March Opens the Garden Season
    • A Little Magic in the Garden
    • Autumn Garden Assessment
    • Notes from Chicago
    • A lovely summer day
    • Back Home- The Weeds!
    • A Rant On Asparagus
    • Soiled Hands, Wormy Worries
    • Flower Garden Oils
    • Safia Walking through the Woods, oil on canvas panel,11×14
    • A Pretty Little Fairy Tale House
    • Pathways
    • Gardener, Know Thyself
    • Favorites for Apple Picking and Fall Foliage
    • I Promise
    • May Dreams Gardens: Garden Design Elements: Seasonal-shift
    • Endless Summer Hydrangea on Alkaline Soil
    • Sloe-ly Found Out
    • A Garden Blog You Should Love
    • Garden Center: Yonies Greenhaus
    • my gardening grandmother
    • Garden Center: Baker’s Village
    • Art Gardener
    • early bloomers
    • Beware
    • Looks Like It Could Work
    • Seriously Funny Garden Ornament
    • Garden Posters
    • The Gardening Bride
    • Give Me Some Gardening Passion
    • Why This Journal Stays on Blogger
    • Tomorrow is the Start of The Home Garden Show
    • Makes Me Think of Spring
    • small encouragements
    • Message for Today
    • birthday sonnet
    • Stone Wall Pockets
    • Christmas day
    • – writing out the hurt –
    • Loss
    • Cute Decoration Ideas
    • season’s greetings from patagonia
    • The Truth About Fake Lawn
    • Make an Ice Wreath
    • poem “gratitude”
    • I Think I Will Try That
    • Lawn Politics
    • fire in the sky
    • Cool Things
    • Seeded Earth
    • Hellebores and Friends
    • More Fairy Houses
    • Love Good Tools
    • I Got Obsessed with Apples
    • In Celebration of The Apple
    • Autumn Beauty
    • When is my first fall frost?
    • muscadine wine
    • bulletin from georgia
    • Celebrate Fall Color
    • Mosquito Begone
    • I Appreciate Followers
    • Experiment Over
    • Haiku: – to Autumn –
    • About Us
    • Garden Haiku
    • two rainy days!
    • Cute Post of the Day
    • For Fun: Wordle of a Garden Blog
    • Blog changes in process
    • Another Sweet Little Fairy Garden
    • Willow Crafting
    • haiku
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    • Congratulations to Me
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    • Mr. BrownThumb explains it all
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      • Never enough time…
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      • I went from summer to fall in 24 hours
      • In which I tell you how I fail
      • Outdoor Cleanup
      • What To Do Now: September
      • Have a Great Labor Day Weekend
      • State of the Garden September
      • September Forecasting
      • Garden update: August 2009
      • Garden Meme- ory
      • GGW Blog Photo Contest, Flowering Tree
      • More From My Town
      • So Many Pictures, So Little Space
      • Fourth of July, High Point of Summer
      • Winding up the Month of June
      • Endless Summer Hydrangea
      • May Colors
      • The Two of Us
      • Scenes from the Garden
      • From the Trip: Photos
      • More of my Garden
      • Just A Note-05-09
      • Dawes: Wildflowers in May
      • Time to prune Mugo pines
      • Garden Report: April’s End
      • Fickle Weather
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      • Spring is Springing Here
      • Garden Pictures of Spring
      • rain, rain and more rain
      • Maui Alert
      • Looking Behind – Looking Ahead
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      • glad to be here
      • Home and Garden : Fortin Ironworks
      • Home and Garden: The Secret Garden
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      • Home and Garden:Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon
      • Home and Garden:Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon
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      • Home And Garden …coming right up!
      • Mr Groundhog was right
      • Home and Garden Show Discount
      • Home And Garden Show
      • Inspired by Twitter
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      • Depressing Exercise: Count the Roses You Killed
      • Cold Frame Survival
      • Garden Mission
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    • Category: 2010
      • Autumn Morning Musings
      • The “what did you do over summer” essay
      • Endless Collages
      • Wet And Wild – Rural Observations
      • AWOL Garden Blogging
      • Spring Details 2010
      • Spring 2010
      • Just a Short ‘What’s Up’
      • Garden Update April 2010
      • Tip-toeing into Spring
      • The Year of The Big Snow
      • updates for February 8
      • The ongoing saga of Winter 2010
      • …And Still It Snows
      • Tracy DiSabato-Aust Featured At Ohio Garden Show
      • My Ohio Winter
      • January- The Month of Two Faces
      • More Chihuly
      • Dear Readers
      • The Garden This Year
      • Garden Catalogs
    • Category: 2011
      • Wrapping Up The 2011 Gardening Year
      • Everything Is Late, But Coming Along
      • June 2011 Report for Flatironed Acres
      • Florida is Beautiful-and Dry, Very Dry
      • Rainiest Season Ever
      • Rural Report Spring 2011
      • Soaking Wet Ground
      • Expectedly, We Re-entered Winter
      • The Night The Ice Fell
      • The Central Ohio Garden Show in Columbus
    • Category: 2012
      • Photo Shoot Em Up
      • Weathering The Storm
      • Illustrating a couple of my projects around here
      • 2012 Urban Tree of the Year
      • Plotting out the Year
    • Category: 2013
      • Looking Frontwards and Backwards
      • Photos From The Past Year
      • The Beauty Of Simplicity
      • One Thing I Miss In Blogging
      • Going To My First Garden Blogger Conference
      • Winter Gets Weaker
      • 15 Lesser Known, But No Less Great Garden Websites
      • Is Your Garden Blog Worthy?
    • Category: 2014
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      • Word To The Wise
      • The Growing Season Review
      • Winding Up July
      • Instagram Walk
      • June Garden Report
      • What To Write About? We are still in a deep freeze.
      • Still too early, so wait for it
      • Midwinter. Colder Than Usual
      • 2014 Too Soon
    • Category: 2015
      • Autumnal Sweetness
      • Monarch Butterflies In The Garden
      • New Year, New Look, New Plans
    • Category: 2016
      • The Blog Move Finally Gets Attention
      • Garden Update And Late Starts
    • Category: 2018
      • Mid-Ohio Gardening Update

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