I wasn't going to write this post because I believe you'd rather not hear me whine. However, Non-gardening, best friend (NGBF), …
A tumble down the daylily rabbit hole
It is an established fact I have too many daylilies, hemerocallis, for those who like a little Latin sprinkled about like good …
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Walkabout
Although the garden as a whole doesn't have a lot of color, if I lean in close, I find so many things like this little skipper on …
Vertical gardening with Garden Up!
Two friends, Rebecca Sweet and Susan Morrison, have teamed up to create a fun new gardening book, Garden Up!: Smart Vertical …
A look back at RDR’s late spring/early summer 2010
Because I just can't help myself, here is a look back at RDR's late spring and early summer in 2010 going backward in fact. I'm …
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A few writing tips
Before I wrote for magazines, I wrote novels, and nope, you can't buy one. They didn't sell. I have the prerequisite three bad …
Sugar Snaps and Strawberries, a review
Sugar Snaps and Strawberries is the cutest title I've seen for a gardening book in a long time. It bucks a marketing idea which …
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RDR’s, year in review, part II
July was all about food and travel. I made a divine fresh cherry pie from my tart 'Montmorency' cherry tree. Stephen and Laurie …
RDR’s year in review, Part I
It's been a year of changes at the Red Dirt Ranch. I am calling it a ranch these days because we have twenty-eight chickens, a …
Gifts for Gardeners, or alternatively, a few of my favorite tools and other things
I know. I know. It's the same thing every year on every website, but truly, I want to make sure my gardener friends get something …
I have roses still
Not fresh May blooms, but the tough old girls who hold on past the freeze. Other than aphids and thrips, it's easy to be a May …
What lies beneath
So farewell—to the little good you bear me. Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he …