Planning New Garden Beds and Borders
It is high time for me to try and start planning new garden beds and borders at my new house. This spring will be my first springtime at this new house, and I…
Garden Issues
Yew Tree or Taxus Baccata- Not Just A Common Evergreen!
I have a large Yew Tree (Taxus Baccata) in my back yard. It is so large it must be a Taxus baccata that was planted when the house was built in 1962. This…
Choosing A Privacy Barrier – Fence or Evergreens?
Sometimes one needs a privacy barrier whether you like your neighbors or not. Let me make this clear. I have no problems with my neighbors at all. Since we moved in last August,…
Removing Invasive Wintercreeper and Vinca
During this late summer and fall time, I am tackling a job that I have dreaded here at the new house…removing invasive wintercreeper and its buddy vinca. These plants have fully taken over…
So Many Plants To Move? How To Move Plants To New Home
Most of you know already that we planned a move again and it has been so stressful and difficult. And I know my husband doesn’t read this blog so I can safely admit…
White Mold Growing On My Potting Soil?
So do I use it or lose it? A few weeks ago, I opened the door on my garden shed and found something looking like snow drifts on the surface of my potting…
Saying Goodbye To My Garden
Changes are coming in my life and the life of my family. If you don’t already know, my husband and I live with my daughter and her husband and my grandson. It has…
So Do Cicadas Bite? Depends On What You Call Bite!
Our Cicada invasion for 2021 is coming to an end here in Ohio as I write this, and I do want to address the question “Do Cicadas bite?” Bite perhaps wouldn’t be the…
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 plantings in my garden and it looks like Spring is really here! Sometimes…
Under The Mistletoe At Christmas
Meet under the mistletoe and get a kiss! The sweetest tradition or custom regarding what could happen under the mistletoe says that hanging it in a doorway or entrance would cause all who…
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