In spite of two freezing nights in a row (with lows of 26 degrees), warm weather is back with a 40 degree low this morning and a projected high tomorrow of 82 degrees. Such is the …
Setting a New Course
You may have noticed RDR has a new theme. For my birthday last September, and in honor on my blogging anniversary this month, I decided on a new design which better reflects …
Fairy Gardens, Examiner.com and More
I mentioned in a previous post that Iseli Nursery gave us five dwarf conifers to take home. If you'd like to see what I did with part of mine, please head on over to Oklahoma …
GTS and Sunday Stroll: Iseli Nursery
As it states in its brochure, Iseli Nursery sits at the bottom of Mount Hood in Boring, Oregon. The views surrounding the nursery are inspiring, and in the clouded light of …
Going for the Gold
I've reached a new level of garden craziness from which I may never return. This morning, before the sun completely broke the horizon into pink and blue hues, I was up and outside …
August Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day Brings Rain
On this August 15th, we've had rain showers for two straight days with more rain headed our way. As Oklahoma gardeners, it seems our fate to always have too much of everything. …
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Compost: The Dirty Underbelly of Gardening
In continuance of my pledge to keep it real, and influenced by Margaret at A Way to Garden and Kathy at Cold Climate Gardening, I'm showing you my garden's soft underbelly. It …
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Bugged by Insects and Other Garden Wildlife?
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. - Emily Dickinson All gardens are full of insects and other wildlife. Most of them …
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Summers Like These
Warm southern breezes touched by the sun. Just enough rainfall to make the perennial border sing with color; the vegetables abundant and crisp; and the Bermuda grass still green …
Serendipity
Serendipity, according to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is "the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for;" A better definition is …
The Poppy
The Poppy By Francis Thompson (1859-1907) SUMMER set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flush'd print in a poppy there; Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And …
It’s Hard Out Here For A Hoe
Shsssh, the "Red Dirt Rambler" has gone to the garden center, yet again, for more plants. RDR wasn't going to do a hoe post. She was trying to let May 3rd slip by with no talk of …