All week we've been flirting with the frost, but despite cooler temperatures with one morning being 34F, even the coleus still …
Wordless Wednesday: early fall 2010
Click on any photo to see it larger, and then hit your back button to go back to the gallery. Whoops, that wasn't wordless was it? …
Plant bulbs and make some magic next spring
You know what they say about gifts in small packages? Well, bulbs are little presents you can hold in the palm of your …
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: cool morning sweet relief
Opening the doors to the back deck this morning, I encountered the sweet relief of autumn. As anyone who attended the Dallas GWA …
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Three for Thursday, purple and green
After I walked about taking photos, I kept thinking of that song, Silver and Gold, and I repeated purple and green as I searched. …
Jealous roses sing the blues
"Where have you been," says 'Sophy's Rose' as I bend over her to drag out some weeds. I feel guilt wash over me. "I've been …
The winner is . . . . and a little bit of summer for the rest of us
Chris is the winner. She is the lovely commenter who said she'd bought some for her mother, but would like a bar for herself. …
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Native flowers perform double duty in the garden
I'm not all about natives. You know that. I grow named cultivars of roses, phlox, daylilies, crapemyrtles and pretty much anything …
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Designing a garden
Doug Green, a friend of mine from Garden Writers Association, asked several of us to do a guest post on his blog about designing a …
Wildflower Wednesday: Russelia equisetiformis
Okay, so Russelia equisetiformis, commonly known as firecracker plant or coral plant, isn't native to the United States. It is, …
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Dear Friend and Gardener, July 5, 2010
Dear Carol and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, My letter is a bit tardy because I had to regroup this morning after …
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So you say you don’t like orange? Or red? Or fuschia?
Orange plants aren't very popular at flower shows. For that matter, the brightest blooms are often shunned by the best of …
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