• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Home Garden Companion

Home Garden Companion

Ilona's Garden Journal

  • Plant Library On The Journal
    • All Season Garden Color
    • Sitemap
  • Garden chores
    • Essential Garden Tools For Beginners
    • Garden Tips and Advice
  • Ilona’s Garden Home
    • Old House Blog
    • Garden Librarian
  • Ilona’s Garden Flavor Shop
  • Privacy Policy
Home » The Dip

The Dip

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: do as I say, Keeping a Garden Journal


In this case, the dip is personal. Do you ever go through periods when you just don’t have the “get up and go” in your gardening? I’m kind of like that right now. The weather is perfect for gardening and maybe I can get out there and accomplish those many jobs on my list. But my energy and motivation for it is flagging. It has nothing to do with less of a love for the garden…. but everything to do with so many other obligations sapping all of my focus.

Fall is always a crunch time for me: schooltime, house projects, yardwork, and beginning preparations for the holidays!

But the rains have softened the ground and I will be more satisfied with the work I do in planting new things if I can just jumpstart myself to “git-er-done”. I think I’m becoming a redneck…. all I need are yard ornaments, now. LOL!so for my friends out there in the great webworld: do as I say, and not as I do; take advantage of this perfect gardening weather to plant, and get the garden ready for the winter. Can’t start any sooner 🙂

I know I promised pictures… and I have them, but they all need to be resized for the web. I personally dislike heavy loading blog pages, and I try to reduce the load time on my pictures when they are posted. Even with higher speed internet which I just had installed- time is precious!* In this post is one new photo: The driveway border with the Ninebark ‘Diablo’, and the new addition of a threadleaf coreopsis to harmonize with the daylily, footed by a juniper, Cotoneaster ‘Tom Thumb’ and Dianthus gratianopolitanus. Like the combination?

Internet-wise I have been changing the old garden pages- adding a few new bits of writing while I refurbish the look. All the garden pages will look like my “Tulips and Daffodils” page.

Technorati Tags: motivation, garden tasks

← Previous Post
Success Story
Next Post →
Seed Collecting Video

About Ilona Erwin

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.

DISCLOSURE: I may be an affiliate for products that I recommend. If you purchase those items through my links I will earn a commission. You will not pay more when buying a product through my link. Thank you, in advance for your support! Privacy Policy

Garden Enthusiasm

Garden Enthusiasm Delivered

* indicates required

View previous campaigns.

Primary Sidebar

Oh, hi there!

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.

Newest Postings Here

  • Hawaiian Flower Arrangements
  • HELLLOOOO, From The Other Side
  • February Gardening, Last of Winter in the Flower Garden
  • Compilation of Past Mini-Posts of 2003
  • Wayback in Ilona Garden Time

Visit For A Spell

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Google +
  • Wanelo
  • Secondary Navigation Social Media Icons

    Join Me

    • Facebook
    • Google+
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Twitter
    • YouTube

Mission

Finding your way home via the garden path

Books, Tools, Tips

Read reviews from the GardenLibarian

Portrait of a Gardener

gardener musings
Musings

What’s Wrong With Today’s Gardening?

Modern gardening
What Is Wrong?

Garden Journal

fine garden journal
Journal, Planner and Log Book
Shop Small Trees and More

Bonsai Trees
buy quality plants

You might also like

seeds

National Seed Swap Day on Saturday

Garden advice

What Makes a Low Maintenance Garden?

Create A Child’s Garden, Grow Love For Nature

Growing Indoor Flowers In December

I Found Out About “She Sheds” And Coincidentally, About Friends

Newest Postings Here

  • Hawaiian Flower Arrangements
  • HELLLOOOO, From The Other Side
  • February Gardening, Last of Winter in the Flower Garden
  • Compilation of Past Mini-Posts of 2003
  • Wayback in Ilona Garden Time

Books, Tools, Tips

Read reviews from the GardenLibarian

Standouts

10 Useful Gardening Tips For Spring

Do You Grow Herbs? 10 Reasons To Love Them

10 Cool Season Annual Flowers To Plant

Standouts

August Gardening: Ten Suggestions

What are your ten top choices for perennial plantings?

ilonagarden

With village lights With village lights
Christmas decor #christmasspirit🎄 Christmas decor #christmasspirit🎄
Gift of flowers by my bedside Gift of flowers by my bedside
#mockorange #juneflowers #ohio #mockorange #juneflowers #ohio
Instagram post 18224713828022497 Instagram post 18224713828022497
#bluehydrangeas with Japanese maple on a cloudy da #bluehydrangeas with Japanese maple on a cloudy day. #hydrangeas
#hydrangeaseason #hydrangeaseason
#bluelacecaphydrangea #hydrangeasmakemehappy #hydr #bluelacecaphydrangea #hydrangeasmakemehappy #hydrangeas
Load More... Follow on Instagram

Footer

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Hazel Theme by Code + Coconut