This morning, buses arrived at 7:00 a.m. to whisk 600 plus writers, photographers, television media personalities, designers and …
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Duke University Gardens Full of Fall Splendor
On our first full day of Garden Writers Association goodness, we had talks on the greening of the planet and working on the web, …
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Plant obsessed or just marginally insane?
Planting outdoors during a downpour might look like one definition of insanity, but I had a bunch of plants to get into the ground …
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Wildflower Wednesday: Wild Blue Ageratum
Always, in September, I can count on the Conoclinium coelestinum (a/k/aEupatorium coelestinum) to bloom throughout my garden. …
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Their last haircut
If you live in Oklahoma or anywhere surrounding, it's time to deadhead the roses one last time. I like to think of it as their …
The Little Ones
They drape over walls and into pathways softening hard surfaces and rectangular beds and borders while drawing the eye of the …
Dear Friends and Bloom Day Beauty
Dear Carol, Mary Ann and all of our gardening friends, I know we normally do our letters on Sunday, but tonight is my first …
Tickled Pink
In case you're worried about Sunday's postcard, please don't be. Carol thought I sounded a bit desperate, but how could I be with …
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder . . .
Or, of the camera, as it were. My Nikon D90 with its multi-purpose 18-70 mm lens has been at the doctor (all the way to Nikon …
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Work Day
Because we've had so much rain in the last three days (two inches) and such fine weather, today was a big-time work day in the red …
Garden of Shame
Gail from Clay and Limestone had her Garden of Benign Neglect (which she rehabbed), but I think my mess is a bit more …
A Request for Spiders
Not the eight legged sort, but, instead, spider daylily photos were requested by Carol of May Dreams Gardens and Mary Ann of Idaho …