Whew! I've been working steadily to get The 20-30 Something Garden Guide done, and writing, proofing, editing doesn't leave much time for anything else, especially blogging. I miss …
A package from the postwoman!
I got a big box in the mail. My postal carrier, who is a dear woman, drove it up my long driveway and honked for me to come outside. She said, "It looks like rain so I didn't want …
Autumn arrives with a frosty kiss
Autumn arrived at RDR this morning with a kiss from icy lips. A cold front with rain barreled through the center of the state making the roses shudder and wave their petals about …
Refresh your garden with a giveaway and through color, texture and form
Rebecca Sweet, co-author of the bestselling, Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces that I reviewed a couple of years ago, wrote another wonderful book this …
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October, 2013
Mid-Autumn wears her lofty crown this Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. October is a month of changes in my Oklahoma garden. We still have warm days and cool nights, but change was …
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Planting garden bulbs is an act of faith
"It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree . . . to see in these wizened, colourless shapes the subtle curves of the Iris reticulata or the tight locks of …
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Some days are diamonds
Some days are diamonds. Others don't glitter with promise. Instead, they are as jagged as rocks jutting out from a precipice. This summer, with its steady rainfall and cooler than …
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and Foliage Followup
This Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, you get two, two for the price of one. I'm still working on the book, and I'm too tired to think about much of anything. Early this morning, I went …
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Have you heard of Vine?
Have you heard of Vine? For once, I'm talking about something other than the garden. Vine is a smartphone app brought to you by the good folks at Twitter, who are all billionaires …
Color in the garden can change your life
There was a time when I feared vibrant color. Although I painted during college, I worried about adding color accents to my garden. So many rules about what goes with what. No …
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day–May 2013
What a spring! March and April were exciting, and May seems to be following their lead. I spend every waking moment in the garden planting, cutting back and weeding. Oy! The …
In the garden today
In the garden today, it is very breezy bordering on windy. While I tidied things, I took some photos of what it looks like on this second, very warm day. Yesterday was 88°F which …