I travel to other gardens every time I get the chance, and there's a method to my madness. At the first Garden2Blog, I came back …
Rose Rosette Disease in Oklahoma
Last week, when I was at the second annual Garden2Blog, I asked Allen if he's seen any Rose Rosette Disease in Little Rock. He …
It’s beautiful ’round here
Oh, how I wish you could visit this spring. We could stroll through my garden with clippers in hand, and I would cut you a …
A cottage in the woods with roses for me?
Once, I saved dish towels and aprons in a hope chest and fantasized about my future home. Nothing fancy. Instead, it was always a …
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Butchart Gardens
Last summer, while in Seattle, Bill, the kids and I visited Victoria on Vancouver Island and Butchart Gardens. I was told I should …
The roses wave a fond farewell
A cold front, dumping tons of snow onto Colorado, and with snow also predicted in the Oklahoma panhandle, is making its way …
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: lemonade plants
Lemonade plants are those which just keep making their presence known blooming their little heads off as summer does its …
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Ten easy flowers to grow in Oklahoma
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 …
Crystalline surfaces
Ah, blessed rain fell all day Easter Sunday, and thick fog layered itself over the garden this morning. Although the roses …
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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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: late winter
It's Bloom Day again, that once a month miracle hosted by Carol of May Dreams Gardens. I don't have much to show, but signs that …
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