Welcome!
I’m Dee Nash, a native Oklahoman, and I’ve gardened here since my teens. I know from personal experience how challenging our prairie climate can be.
But my blog isn’t just for Oklahomans. Gardening can be challenging in other climates too. So, I share how to garden wherever you grow.
Enjoy the garden you’ve always wanted!
Featured posts
Dear Spring Garden, I love you
Dear Spring Garden, I love you. You are…
Easy plants for your containers
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A quick garden update
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Spring garden preparations
There’s a lot of advice online about spring…
Mouse & Trowel
It's time again for you to nominate your favorite gardening blogs for the Mousies. The Mouse & Trowel Awards were created by freelance writer and garden blogger Colleen Vanderlinden of In the Garden Online. According to her website, "the Mousies were created so that garden bloggers and webmasters could be recognized by the most important people: their readers and their blogging peers." Blogs, websites, and podcasters are honored each May. If you love garden blogs or have a favorite garden website, and who doesn't, go to nominate your favorites here. It's easy. It's fun. I already made my selections, and I can't wait to see the sites others choose. Go on . . . surprise me.
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Belated Green Thumb Sunday: More Roses?
That's what HH asked me when I walked in the door, a pot clutched under each arm. No, really, he didn't, but the raised eyebrows gave him away. At the weekend's start, I had my photos ready. All the words were rattling around in my head just waiting for a post, but after a thunderstorm on Friday, my internet was out for three whole days. It gave me more time to garden. When I pruned the roses in the southeast border, I noticed two had succumbed, both Cl. 'Golden Showers.' To what? When I dug them, I saw that there was more clay in that bed than I remembered. Too much clay mixed with too much water (38 inches in June 2007) kills a rose faster than a Ferrari can gobble up race track. I also removed the two, long suffering 'Joseph's Coat' climbers. You know a rose is pitiful...
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Let’s Prune Roses
It's time. We can finally prune. I own a lot of roses. Too many in fact. At first look in spring, I am stunned by all the thorny canes I'll be facing. Until this year, I used regular gloves, which ensured numerous scratches up and down my forearms. I've actually been asked if I've been in a cat fight and lost. Very funny. Several years ago, I bought a pair of relatively inexpensive rose gloves. The jury's still out on whether I like them, but my forearms look better. I'd like a pair of Bionic Rose Gloves like the ones on the right, but it's only March, and I've already spent a small fortune on gardening implements. (I had to replace my trusty hoe, and of course, I couldn't decide, so I bought two.) Now, for the roses. Used to be, we all grew Hybrid Teas, the hot house flowers...
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Eye Candy
These watering cans were lined up like infrantry at our local garden center, TLC Nursery, on Saturday. The morning low of 15 degrees F brought forth images of my friends in Canada and New York. Brrr . . . . I decided to replace those with some eye candy. I took these photos at the nursery, and all are true to the colors I saw. I continue to be amazed at my Christmas present, my Nikon D40x. Just visiting the garden center gave me a real boost, so if you have a good nursery nearby, go and treat yourself to an "artist's date" as expressed in The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron. And before you say "Artist? Me?," I want to remind you that we are all artists, and the garden is our palette. I braved the early morning and cold temps for classes in Proven Plants for Oklahoma, Shade...
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