Are you ready for the big day? No? I'm not either, but I've found over the years whether I'm ready or not, it still comes, and …
These door decorations will last beyond the Christmas season.
This isn't the easiest time of the year, and if your regular life is piled up with distractions, the Christmas season can send you …
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It’s the little things . . .
As I ate two, beautiful eggs from our chickens this morning, I thought, "It's the little things which satisfy." I'll try to …
Imagine the possibilities, I get to be a Proven Winners Garden Guru
Not so long ago, I was a GAHM--Garden at Home Mom--who loved my landscape and had a Journalism degree with an emphasis in Botany. …
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Merely sleeping
One spring, forty years ago, a young girl toddled after her grandmother in the small yard behind her grandmother's white-frame …
The mighty amaryllis
Yesterday, I bought two amaryllis bulbs from two different places, one in a red pot from Whole Foods and the other at, horror of …
Attitude of gratitude: a gluten and dairy free life
I have so much to be grateful for this year. How about you? My mother is healthy for the first time in years, and my sister is …
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, November 2011: pansy power!
When I gaze upon flats of pansies and violas, I always wonder why the word pansy developed into such a negative connotation. Pansy …
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Why I plant alliums
I can hear you sigh. First, with delight, and then you remember purple alliums don't often return for a repeat performance here. …
Paying it forward
In everyone's life, there are generous souls who help us find our way. My mentors, past and present, made me believe I can change …
Plant this: Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’
I know, they say it's been overdone, but really, with fall color like this, who cares? In our hot part of the world, most …
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The roses wave a fond farewell
A cold front, dumping tons of snow onto Colorado, and with snow also predicted in the Oklahoma panhandle, is making its way …