Sweet cool rain brings even sweeter flowers. As I step out on the deck every morning to drink hot tea and survey the back …
Continue Reading about Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, May 15, 2010
Sweet cool rain brings even sweeter flowers. As I step out on the deck every morning to drink hot tea and survey the back …
Continue Reading about Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, May 15, 2010
As a garden writer, it's that time of year when I'm sent plants to test in my garden. Yesterday, I came home to a large box with …
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Hi Carol and Mary Ann, The weather was so exciting (as in bad) yesterday, I forgot to write. We had a cluster of tornadoes in …
Continue Reading about Dear Friends and Gardeners: a postcard from tornado alley
First, bear with me while I indulge in a bit of history. When I began to garden, I was nineteen years old, married and living …
A little rain stirs magic in a garden. There is no doubt that ozone and rainwater are much better than an irrigation system no …
It's a fine spring day. Time to do chores, like removing the leaves from the shade beds, feeding the roses and daylilies, and …
Dear Carol, Mary Ann and all of our friends, Good Morning Sunshines! That's how my mother would greet me nearly every school …
Continue Reading about Dear Friends and Gardeners, March 29, 2010
Both hurt. This afternoon, I untangled the wreck between Rosa 'The Fairy' and R. 'Carefree Delight' (a thornier beast never …
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Today was the day. The wind was calm, and the sun shined down upon my quest. My first rose in the back garden, 'Cl. Old Blush', …
Does anyone remember the series of letters Carol from May Dreams Gardens and Mary Ann from Gardens of the Wild, Wild West and I …
Continue Reading about Dear friends and gardeners, 2010, week one
A reader, Molly, wrote me the sweetest email, and because I thought her questions reflected others I'd received, I thought I'd …
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