Category: Gardening

I once read that Elton John paid some ridiculous amount of money monthly to keep fresh flowers in his house in Atlanta. I too love having fresh flowers in the house! Every time I walk through a room with fresh flowers it gives me joy. There is no better feeling then when the flowers come […]

A lot is going on before the heat sets in here in Virginia, (by the way, today is 90). Monday and Tuesday I spent over 3 hours each day outside digging, moving plants, and weeding. The most disappointing, (actually devastating) is that for the first year in over 12 years my Foxglove did not reseed […]

My herb garden gets the least attention. Since herbs thrive in full sun and don’t need to be mulched, they can easily be ignored……….. for awhile. I do go in a couple of times a year to weed and thin out or cut back. This year I’m giving it more attention than normal. The Thyme […]

Most of the time I like a rogue plant. By rogue, I mean a plant that reseeds itself in strange, sometimes unwanted spaces. I’ve had tomatoes in the rose garden and also in a shade garden. I have Black Eyed Susan’s in with some Hellebores and Variegated Liriope, (the garden with the mossy head). This […]

The past few weeks I have been very busy cleaning out all of the beds. I have made real progress, all the beds are done except for my favorite main perennial, (the largest) garden. It is cleaned up and I have moved the Coneflowers and the groundcover little yellow flowers from the back to the […]

We have been feeding the birds, one feeder outside the kitchen window, and the suet feeder outside the bedroom window. We have the usual, Tufted Titmouse, House Wren, Yellow Finches, and Northern Cardinals. The suet attracts some others such as, the Red Bellied Woodpecker (seen below), the Bluebird (seen below), and also the finches and […]

The weather has been so great. We got back Tuesday and Wednesday I was in the garden. I started where I left off with the lilies, (there were 2 that I didn’t get to). I did one and couldn’t help but notice what a horrible mess the adjacent bed was in. In this bed I […]

Yesterday I was able to spend the afternoon out in the garden. I didn’t go back to the perennial garden where I started because it had rained and P doesn’t want me on the lawn with the golf cart, (God forbid) when its too wet. I could have but I just didn’t want to hear […]

Yes I know its not spring, but we have been blessed with above average temperatures. I take this as my cue to get outside and start spring cleanup. Every time I drive in or out of the driveway I see all the work that needs to be done. It can be quite overwhelming, that’s why […]