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08.02.12 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Signs of Spring

Garden Quotations + spring

I woke up to snow this morning… one of winter’s end of season visits, just to let Ohio know it is still around. But its days are numbered! I heard one sure sign of spring yesterday- the call of the mourning doves. When I hear that, I know we are on the way out of…

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01.02.12 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Too Much Candy Is Probably Not A Good Thing

Garden design ideas + Garden Quotations + the REAL world

Too much candy? Why is she writing about this in her garden blog? You can blame it on an article I read on garden writing, Garden Photographs – some problems. And while I am not a big fan of ranting about garden topics, occasionally I read something that resonates with some underground opinion of my…

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01.12.09 | Ilona Erwin | 8 Comments

Rattling Cages At Christmas – Anti Lawn Folks

Garden Quotations

I don’t like people to try and whip me into shape. It is my nature. I make no exceptions and that can get me into trouble. Especially with those who are loyal to causes. So when I came across a conversation that rattles some cages I thought “Why not post that?” instead of “I wouldn’t…

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10.10.09 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Gladys Tabor’s Wry Yankee Wit

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Gladys Tabor was a beloved writer of my mother’s generation. She had a homely, yet penetrating way of observing her small world filled with common daily chores. That is one of the things we can love about her writing… and some things are quite true in any generation it seems… which is what makes for…

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13.11.08 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

A Common Point of View

Garden photos + Garden Quotations + Landscape Design Know-How

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the…

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07.11.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Frost at Midnight

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Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,Whether the summer clothe the general earthWith greenness, or the redbreast sit and singBetwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branchOf mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatchSmokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fallHeard only in the trances of the blast,Or if the secret ministry of frostShall…

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15.10.08 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

Thoughts for an Autumn Day

Garden Quotations + General gardening

..and a few pictures from my garden…. Isn’t it just the most exhilarating thing to be alive in this golden autumn, while flower borders are still rich and full of bloom as they can be, and be able to bridge the thought of a flowerless winter by planning and scheming and dreaming of the spring…

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15.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

A Bit Of Garden Wisdom

Garden Quotations + gardening tips + General gardening

This is not the time of year to do all this pruning and moving, but insuch a tangled garden it must be done, and now is better than never. ~Katy’s Garden

09.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Thoughts

Garden Quotations + summer

“Like a big mountain, a small garden stimulates, restores, and delights us, just as it poses challenges, promotes mastery, provides exercise and relieves monotony.”~ The Power of Place, Winifred Gallagher Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and “green-robed senators of mighty woods”…

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04.06.08 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Garden Quotations + seed starting

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. -Dan Bennett Each spring…a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground. ~Lewis Gantt Technorati Tags: sayings,

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