Well, you know how much I love spring-blooming bulbs right? My front garden is a kaleidoscope come Easter. A few years ago, …
Personal treasure
I really debated about whether to embed this on my blog because it's truly personal. On my mom's birthday last weekend, she showed …
Welcome to the jungle
Gaze with me outside my kitchen window. Do you see Cousin Itt from the Addams Family instead of the iron arbor gate to my back …
Wildflower Wednesday: common mountain mint
If you want to be invited to a pollinator keg party, just plant one of the many mountain mints and stand back for the show. A …
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Tale of Woe
What's there to say? Today's temperature so far is 109F (42.7C.) No rain in my garden since June, and with few exceptions, the …
More Seattle goodness: Lorene’s garden
How Lorene managed to do the lion's share of the work to put on the Seattle Bloggers' Fling and also open her garden to us amazes …
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Almost Wordless Wednesday: a grass in two lights
I took this first photo from the bottom of the hill. Then, I walked up the hill and took it with the sunlight shining from …
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I feel I’ve lost my gardening mojo
This summer is taking its toll on south central gardeners especially in parts of Texas and all of Oklahoma except the southeast …
Hard times under the Oklahoma sun
I don't know how things are in your neck of the woods weather wise . . . . I had to turn off the news after the fifty-thousandth …
Busy days at the Red Dirt Ranch
The last three weeks have been a blur of activity. My nieces came to stay for several days while my sister-in-law, Maria, helped …
June Bloom Day, come and converse with the daylilies
At the Red Dirt Ranch, when the daylilies are blooming, nothing else can compare. Not even beautiful Hydrangea arborescens …
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One hot and humid mamma jamma
We came home last night from Bill's paving convention at Big Cedar in Branson, MO. On the whole, Missourians were pretty disgusted …