I feel fortunate to be part of Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun book launch. For this post, I did receive a copy of the book to read, along with a copy to give away to one of my readers. Yay!
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Ramblings With Dee
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I'm Dee and I love to travel. While my roots are in the red dirt of Oklahoma, you can find me wandering the gardens at Sissinghurst and taking in local color in Seattle or Austin.
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~Dee
Of love and late-summer flowers
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about love and late-summer flowers. I’m not sure what brought on these musings, but I think it may have something to do with turning the big double nickel last week. I’m a late-summer flower myself. I’m also helping my mother sell her home and move into independent living, letting…
Blessed be gardens and weddings in May
It’s the beginning of May. Sorry I haven’t written in a couple of weeks. You must forgive me. Like the garden, I am gathering my strength, girding my loins, and getting ready to launch myself and the garden into June. We are facing the calendar and weather with courage, the kind that’s said its prayers….
Visiting Eudora Welty’s House and Garden
Last week, Bill, Claire and I took an epic road trip vacation, and on our way home, we visited Eudora Welty’s house and garden. Our visit was a fluke. It only happened because Carol Michel from May Dreams Gardens noted we were in Jackson, MS. She suggested–nay, insisted–we visit. I’m so glad she did because…
Travelogue: the Chelsea Flower Show, Part I
Let’s go to the Chelsea Flower Show, a gardener’s Mecca.
Paradise Under Glass book giveaway!
I think the end of the year is a good time to celebrate and do a giveaway. While I wish I could give you a greenhouse, I don’t have that kind of sponsorship. Actually, I don’t have any sponsorship on this little blog. I think the Pioneer Woman might have that kind of clout though….
Plants of the Cherokee and a road trip through the Cherokee Nation
Bill and I took a trip to Cherokee country on Tuesday. Oklahoma may be one state, but we are many nations as Travel Oklahoma puts it. Every corner of Oklahoma is not only diverse in its topography, soil and weather, but also, in its people. Because of our history, we have native peoples from all…
Four ways Pinterest changed the gardener in me.
A week or so ago, I gave a speech on how social media platforms like Pinterest changed the gardener in me. Social media is also always in flux, so I did some research especially for photo sharing services like Picasa/Google+, Photobucket and Flickr. I don’t use the last two very often because I am already…
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in May: roses are red . . . and yellow too
A few years ago, three probably, I began adding red roses to the spring symphony. I also added several yellow. I like red and yellow in the garden, and honestly, in roses, these two colors have become my favorites in our sunlight–with the exception of Pink Knockout®. I do love that hot pink of single…
Rose Rosette Disease in Oklahoma
Last week, when I was at the second annual Garden2Blog, I asked Allen if he’s seen any Rose Rosette Disease in Little Rock. He knew immediately what I was talking about, and he said he hadn’t seen “witch’s broom,” the more common name for what is currently being classified as a rose virus. As we…
What a garden show should be: the Northwest Flower and Garden Show
Birches, chamaecyparis and confers of all types mixed with red-twigged dogwoods, hellebores and hamamelis (witch hazels) artfully blended to create scenes of Great Northwest fantasy. I heard several friends were going to the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Tired of brown Bermuda and trees without snow, I decided to use some of my points, fly…
It’s the little things . . .
As I ate two, beautiful eggs from our chickens this morning, I thought, “It’s the little things which satisfy.” I’ll try to keep that in mind this Advent season if I get caught up in the hustle and bustle to make everything “just so.” The perfect tree, the perfect mantle decoration, the perfect post ….