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Category: Gardening

  • Downloading Pictures, New Frustration

    I have been trying for weeks to import pictures from my phone. This has kept me from writing new posts, especially in gardening. I used to connect my iphone to my laptop and after acknowledging the connection is legit, my laptop would start importing only the new pictures that I hadn’t already downloaded and I…

  • ….”The Leaves are Falling All Around”…

    This is my favorite time of year, that’s why I got married in October. I love the cooler temperatures, I’m able to work outside for hours and I am always in awe of the beautiful landscape as the seasons change. It is hard to describe the joy that I get seeing the beautiful colors of…

  • More Cut Flowers

    When we got back from Myrtle Beach it was very hot! I wanted to cut some flowers and bring them in the house so P actually came out and helped me. Everything looks so beautiful right now, most all of the perennials are blooming. Below is what I decided to do with them. My absolute…

  • Garden Art – Newel

    One of my latest projects, (I finished months ago) was repainting a newel that I had finished years ago and had out in the garden. I had P drill a hold in the bottom and insert rebar so I can stick it in the ground. It was red, yellow, blue and green, (see picture). I…

  • Indoor Plants

    I am the first to admit that I’m not great with indoor plants, although I have always had them in my homes. The ones I do have are probably the easiest ones to care for such as Peace Lilies, Pothos, Spider Plants, etc. Right now I have 4 Peace Lilies, which are doing well. I…

  • Fresh Flowers

    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…

  • What’s new in the Garden

    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…

  • Herb Garden

    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…

  • Rogue Columbine

    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…

  • Spring Cleaning yet Again

    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…