What creative souls read my blog, and just like the two bulbs, above, you are resilient. That's what I think when I read your …
An ongoing and clandestine love affair
This year, I swore no indoor seed growing. Here's why: I really don't have a place for them except the basement (where I'll …
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day dateline February 2010
Yesterday's snow melted away, and once again the landscape is brown and gray. I'm a poet and didn't know it. Ha! At 26F …
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And the Winner is!
With 56.4 percent of the vote and chosen by you, the winner of the Fiskars Momentum reel mower is No. 64, J.P. Here is J.P.'s …
Snowbound thoughts: Part I, terrariums
Well, most of the snow melted in yesterday's rain, but more ice and snow are predicted for Sunday and again next week. I'm …
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You choose the winner!
First let me say, "WOW!!!" One hundred twenty-one comments! Thanks, too, for the tweets. Y'all outdid yourselves. NGBF …
The great houseplant census of 2010
Mr. McGregor's Daughter asked all of us to take a census of our houseplants. Somehow, this census is supposed to save her …
Kitchen Gardener magazine arrives!
About a hundred years ago, when I first started gardening out here in the country in my red dirt, I subscribed to Kitchen Gardener …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for January 2010: Achieving Winter Bloom
Last year, my January Bloom Day post consisted of little, so I vowed to give you more in 2010. Like last year, let's begin with …
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White Christmases are highly overrated
A little, light, powdered-sugar dusting would be okay, but fourteen inches is a record breaker. I still haven't seen my mom for …
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Think we’ll have a white Christmas?
In Oklahoma, the weather outside is truly frightful. As I wrote before, we rarely have a white Christmas, but the blizzard of …
On the occasion of the Winter Solstice
For those of us with colder temperatures, or even snow, winter seems like it arrived a few weeks ago, but according to the U.S …
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