A cold front, dumping tons of snow onto Colorado, and with snow also predicted in the Oklahoma panhandle, is making its way …
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: lemonade plants
Lemonade plants are those which just keep making their presence known blooming their little heads off as summer does its …
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Too tired to post
I feel a post percolating about the fires and rebirth, but having just returned from GWA, I'm too tired to write it today. My home …
Wordless Wednesday: sublime climber
If you'd like to visit my Lowe's post this week on attracting wildlife, please go here. …
You really can garden anywhere
First, bear with me while I indulge in a bit of history. When I began to garden, I was nineteen years old, married and living …
The Dowager Duchess must be freed
Today was the day. The wind was calm, and the sun shined down upon my quest. My first rose in the back garden, 'Cl. Old Blush', …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for January 2010: Achieving Winter Bloom
Last year, my January Bloom Day post consisted of little, so I vowed to give you more in 2010. Like last year, let's begin with …
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Garden questions from a reader moving to Oklahoma
A reader, Molly, wrote me the sweetest email, and because I thought her questions reflected others I'd received, I thought I'd …
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‘Carefree Beauty’ rose
Tired of hearing about cold and snow? Me too. Instead, let us speak of times past, particularly of summer, when the garden posed …
Why ‘Old Blush’ is also called Common Monthly
Some roses are simply easy to love. Rosa chinensis 'Old Blush', supposedly hardy to USDA Zone 6 (and definitely to Zone 7a), goes …
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I’m Doing a Happy Dance
What better mid-winter garden news could we Oklahomans get? Mike Shoup of the Antique Rose Emporium is coming to speak in Tulsa …
Thoughts and Other Beautiful Things
One of gardening's great blessings is the peace it affords the gardener. When problems weigh upon me like an anvil, I open the …