We get a winter like this. Blame it on El Nino or whatever you like, but in Oklahoma (and I hear parts of Texas), it is snowing …
Why do you garden?
With winter creeping this way, have you considered why you garden? Winter is a time of rest, renewal and review. Why do we …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, colorful November
[Please click on the photos in the gallery to make them larger] I managed to delude myself for the past few weeks imagining it …
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Autumn’s not so understated beauty
Busy this week with maternal duties and, later, writing projects, I nearly failed to glance outside my window. Thank goodness I …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, October 2009
Bloom Day dawned with more rain and fog. We are covered in a misty, gray morning for the second week in a row, and it's starting …
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The Little Ones
They drape over walls and into pathways softening hard surfaces and rectangular beds and borders while drawing the eye of the …
Six Plants I Can’t Live Without
Steve Bender from the Grumpy Gardener issued the challenge, and I accepted the gauntlet where it lay. Which six plants in my …
Heavenly Hellebores
In the late winter or early spring, is there any plant with more ephemeral beauty than the Hellebore? Granted, you have to …
Land of Surprises
If New Mexico is the "Land of Enchantment," then, today, my garden became the "Land of Surprises." This is what greeted me this …
In Search of Fall
In spite of two freezing nights in a row (with lows of 26 degrees), warm weather is back with a 40 degree low this morning and a …
Oklahoma + October = Red and Yellow: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
It's October, and it doesn't feel like fall. We're still having late summer temperatures, so everything continues to grow and …
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The Gardens and Gifted Imagination of Terra Nova
After Iseli, we boarded our buses for Terra Nova Nurseries in Canby, Oregon. If you've ever purchased an unusual Heuchera like …
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