Spring garden preparations
There’s a lot of advice online about spring garden preparations. One rule of thought is to do nothing until temperatures are consistently over 55 or…
Grow the sweetest cherry tomatoes
Have you ever wanted to grow the sweetest cherry tomatoes? A photo of my granddaughter eating a tomato like an apple from 2022. She’s grown…
My zinnia plan for this year
I see you laughing at this title, but a zinnia plan is what it will take to incorporate so many different varieties in my garden…
Organizing new seeds
It’s that time of year when gardeners start to dream through seed catalogs and troll websites, buying and later organizing new seeds. All this shopping…
Trees of hope
In December, we planted two trees of hope where the horse barn stood before March 2023’s wildfire. Since we don’t have horses anymore, we decided…
Tick bites and Alpha-gal Syndrome
In late October, I was diagnosed with Alpha-gal syndrome which is an allergy to mammalian products. I can’t eat any meat products including dairy. I…
What flowers in fall?
If you search perennial gardening in Oklahoma this time of year, you might want to know what flowers in fall. Magical closeup of sneezeweed, Helenium…
Plants I love in the garden now.
These are the plants I love in the garden at the beginning of October. The weather is still hot, but changes are coming this week.…
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day September
Hello!! I’m here for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day today! Not a day late. Not a day early, but on time. ‘Tightwad Red’ crapemyrtles really shine…
Garden success with Wave® petunias
Wave® Gardening asked me to write about my experience growing Wave® petunias this summer. My husband, Bill, loves petunias so I always incorporate several varieties in my containers and elsewhere in the garden.
Cut flower garden update
Remember my cut flower garden plans last spring? I thought I would give you a cut flower garden update in the middle of the hottest…
It’s August, and it’s hot.
It’s August, and it’s hot outside. The weather has been in the 100s for three weeks straight, but good news is on the horizon. A…