I wasn't going to write this post because I believe you'd rather not hear me whine. However, Non-gardening, best friend (NGBF), …
Crystalline surfaces
Ah, blessed rain fell all day Easter Sunday, and thick fog layered itself over the garden this morning. Although the roses …
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 …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: April, 2011
I feel like the blue in this dianthus' foliage. I'm cold. After several days in the mid-80s, we've dropped to a chilly 48F. …
Continue Reading about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: April, 2011
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 …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, March: the daffodils have it
Please forgive me for being late to Bloom Day hosted by Carol of May Dreams Gardens. I apologize. I was laying sidewalk from the …
Continue Reading about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, March: the daffodils have it
Awaken your sense of child-like wonder
The weather is finally turning a bit, and I've been planting like a busy bee. Today, as I dug holes for an apricot tree and four …
Continue Reading about Awaken your sense of child-like wonder
Wait, little garden, wait
Wait, little garden, wait. It's not April even though the weather makes us feel like May. New bulb shoots are popping up all …
Garden Book Review Week continues with Proven Plants Southern Gardens
Doesn't that picture just draw you in? Our second review of the week is Erica Glasener's , Proven Plants Southern Gardens. If …
Continue Reading about Garden Book Review Week continues with Proven Plants Southern Gardens
Hello hellebore!
So glad to see you sweet hellebore. Missed your sunny face all winter. What about your sisters, they of the drooping heads? …
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 …
Continue Reading about A look back at RDR’s late spring/early summer 2010
The cruelest month
February is the cruelest month for Oklahoma gardeners. Some would say August when temperatures often are above 100F, but I don't …