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Why Can’t I Grow Things Here?

Ilona Erwin

In this Southern garden, where I have recently moved. That is a little exaggerated, okay? I do grow some things, mostly what was already planted and survived on my property. But I am not having success with many of the new things I am trying to grow in this North Georgia garden. So let’s start […]

My Place+ Southern Gardening Ilona Erwin

HELLLOOOO, From The Other Side

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atlanta georgia skyline

I’m not ready to write this post, but I must start somewhere. It is part explanation, part apology, part a ploy for commiseration. This is not a farewell post. No, I just signed up for two more expensive years of hosting. Yes, that was a bit of a grouse, but when I tell you about […]

Day in the life Ilona Erwin

Slow Time In The Old Town

Ilona Erwin

It’s winter. I slow down with everything else…maybe it is true what they say about the blood thickening. I’m deciding how I want the coming year to go and what I want to do with the blog. Beth Ann got me started on the seed search for this year, so I went to the seed […]

2009+ seed starting Ilona Erwin

Gardening Melts Pounds

Ilona Erwin

In the heat we’ve had lately, gardening will literally melt pounds. You might know I started working out at Curves this year, and it really helps in the gardening activities- because gardening is labor. A labor of love surely, but labor all the same. It wasn’t until my gardening season started in earnest that I […]

do as I say+ the REAL world Ilona Erwin

Maintenance

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure That bathroom drywall rot I mentioned? I spoke to my husband about it right after writing that post, and it is on the list for this weekend. yay. It is always true that it is easier to keep something maintenanced than it is to fix […]

maintenance+ metal roof+ painting Ilona Erwin

Odd Corners of My Garden Life

Ilona Erwin

It is the midst of fall, and the rains have begun. This years tree color was pretty, but not the best, since many trees turned color a bit early and many more lost their leaves early. It was another one of those years that the crabapple trees had little cotton ball puffs of bloom. I […]

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I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

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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