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by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: An Armchair Gardener

What’s Wrong With Gardening Today?

Tagged With: garden design, garden rant

You may love gardening and think there is nothing wrong with it. That would have been me. Little did I think when picking up a book that appeared benignly similar to most books of its kind, that I would happen upon some thoughts that deeply expressed … [Read more...] about What’s Wrong With Gardening Today?

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: About Flowers, bulbs, Garden Perennial Plants, July

Arrange the July garden around lilies

Tagged With: flower bulbs, garden design, lilies, perennial border

Every month has it's supreme leading lady flower of the garden; June has the Rose, but July has the Lily. Especially now that the "Orienpets" have been created. They were the belle of several beds at the Inniswood Gardens Metro Park, and I would love … [Read more...] about Arrange the July garden around lilies

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I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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