I haven't done a ten easiest in awhile, so I thought I'd update us all with flowers instead of veggies. I get a lot of searches …
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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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. …
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The sovereigns of May are not well pleased
The queens of the garden, the roses for those of you who don't know, are most unhappy about the ill treatment they received in …
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Redbud revelry
Each year, just when we fear winter will never end, redbuds swell and eventually pop open creating a purple fantasy. I think God …
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 …
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Hello hellebore!
So glad to see you sweet hellebore. Missed your sunny face all winter. What about your sisters, they of the drooping heads? …
Wish you were here
Remember all that boring stuff I wrote about the snow and ice only a couple of weeks ago? Although it started out foggy this …
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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Flight of fiction
This week seemed extraordinarily long with the snow and extreme cold, but the other night as I went to bed, I kept thinking about …