My Favorite and Easy Perennials
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by your garden plants? Do you run out of time when you do get a
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Flower Gardening
Enchanting and Beautiful – The Foxglove
A drift of foxglove in a garden is one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen. These enchanting
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Spring’s Here & I Need To Face My Physical Limitations of Gardening
As the fog rolls in this morning, I took a tour outside and looked over my hypertufa pots and other
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Not Worried About Social Distancing. I’ve Got Gardening To Do!
I just couldn’t help but address the pandemic situation in the whole world today with all the frantic toilet paper
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10 Must Have Garden Tools For This Spring!
Spring is almost here! I know we’ve all been looking forward to it. But what will we need when we
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Spring is – The Scent of Sweet Woodruff
It is time for sweet woodruff to bloom soon. I can’t help but love the small whorls of leaves and
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Growing Bulbs In Hypertufa Pots – Spring Planning
Anyone making plans already for spring? We are gardeners, so of course we are all making our plans. We’ve pruned
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Simple Home Soil Test – In A Jar!
Did you ever wonder what type of soil you had? Loamy (the good stuff), or clay or sandy. There are
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Urine in The Garden & Compost? Yes, Let’s Go There!
Number 3 was a real shocker to me ! In my warm garden shed, heated by the bright spring sunlight,
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Plant Pick : Ajuga reptans: Living Mulch
How could you not love this plant? A beauty in sun or shade, beautiful blossoms, attracts hummingbirds, is there much
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Why Throw Away Plants That Just Need Water ?- My Plant Shopping Rant
Let’s pitch out the plants that wilted from no water. Let’s pitch the plants whose blooms have faded. Let’s pitch
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Planting Seeds in Winter – Heard of Winter Sowing?
Planting seeds at the winter solstice. Outside in containers buried in the Ohio snows. Excuse me? Since it’s past winter
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Rewind: Pea Gravel Pathways – Oh Our Aching Backs!
A thousand pounds of pea gravel, one shovel full at a time. I should explain that I have a
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Addicted to Amaryllis Bulbs !
Craving something to grow and bloom in winter? Oh yes, we gardeners have our amaryllis plants to keep us company
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Are You Battling Gnats? Maybe There IS A Solution
When we love houseplants, we just plain love houseplants, no matter what troubles and heartaches they might involve. Depending on
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