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Blogging For 9 Years This Month

Ilona Erwin

 On September 9, 2003, I made my first experimental post on Blogspot. It wasn’t much more than a trial of creating something with a heading and trying a couple font effects. The first garden related post was the next day, September 10, of those plants mentioned in that post my leadwort did well and I […]

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Peek-a-Boo Garden Blogging

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” I don’t know what it is about the culture of professional writers, but they seem to have a hard time with transparency and citation of sources.” -Gardenbloggers, Disclosure and Trust Written by MrBrownThumb in May of 2012. I read that in a post that discussed transparency in blogging, etc. and the controversy that has […]

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Listened to Joe the Gardener

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  Poked around Joe’s website-blog empire for a bit and listened to his really good podcast, No.22. Loved the things that were discussed in Fern Marshall Bradley’s interview. It centered around the Reader’s Digest “All-New Illustrated Guide to Gardening”. I know it seems I’m all about books, right now… but that is a coincidence, really. […]

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I Appreciate Followers

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Yes, I do! To any who have joined the blog whether through googlefriends or by using the feed…thank you so much. One does not write in a vacuum, and doesn’t love it any more than mother nature :) I recently checked in on the facebook page for the site and ::frown:: no activity…which really isn’t […]

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Improving the Garden Blog

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It’s time to update the Template, tighten the focus, and do more writing. I am ashamed of my garden right now, it is in such need of weeding, but the garden blog needs attention, too. I’m torn. So today I spent some time pulling the weeds and this last week did major work in the […]

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Past Posts: the Good Stuff

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It is not too early to think about your coming bulb choices. Fall planting might seem far away, but the catalogues will arrive and the orders will need to be in before too long, so you might want to think about bulbs for your garden. I am coming across some of these posts as I […]

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10 Best Perennial Plants for Anyone’s Garden

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The thrilling expectancy of Spring is in the air and what better way to feed the anticipation than to visit the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show which opens this Saturday, February 28th? I am so excited to go this year. You have time to hop on over to a Home Depot store and get […]

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Witch Hazel ushers in Spring On the whole, deciduous, flowering shrubs get short shrift in modern gardens. We know about lilacs and weigelas, perhaps, but are often discouraged from planting them given “lack of seasonal interest” as the rationalization for such advice. It is true that some of them shine only when in bloom. Flowering […]

Start Spring with a Big Pop of Color   Though the usual sequence is to plant the bulbs in the fall for bloom in the spring, some growers cheat the system by chilling those sold for spring bloom. This is necessary for Southern gardens which don’t get the required cold temperatures. Presented here are some […]

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It is increasingly the Holy Grail of garden designs: making a landscape low maintenance. For many reasons, reducing the work load of our outdoor spaces has become a priority. We are busy with many activities We are aging Viewing flowers rather than weeding flowerbeds is preferable That is not the definitive list, by any means, […]

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