Winter is probably a lot of gardeners least favorite time of the year. It’s dark. It’s grey. It’s cold. After the holidays, the longest time …
Winter, What is it Good For?
Seasons
Leave the Leaves and See the Benefits
Remarkable things about leaves. They are: –free– –natural– –beneficial– Falling leaves mark the end of Autumn and the beginning of Winter. We may see this …
You are an Awfully Pretty Drainage Ditch
“You are beautiful!” We see that so many places, stickers on walls, buildings, posts, signs, etc. It is plastered many places, but you can’t plaster …
Edible Flowers and Leaf Lettuce
I forgot how much I love Johnny Jump Ups and Violas. I started two seed packets of them this winter to interplant with my leaf …
New Garden for Us
We have relocated to Illinois. We are about 40 miles northwest of Chicago in a village called Barrington Hills, horse country. There is a lot …
Angie Mead from Hemlock on Gardens in her Life
I have the pleasure of knowing Angie Mead through the music world of Chicago. Luckily, this lady is also into plants!!! She has a garden …
Everyone is Gardening!
With our lockdowns comes a bit of anxiety and the unknown. Some people go to extremes with their fear and start to hoard household items …
Heliconias and Gingers
We have really been just torturing ourselves with the house. So the garden blogging as been left a bit to the wayside. When everything gets …
A Few Flower Photos
This year, I really feel the flowers were powerful. Here are just a few blooms that seemed to make my heart skip a beat. The …
A Little Recognition
Mid summer, I sent in some pictures of my personal garden to an “Excellence in Gardening” competition. By September, I found out that I had …