This is one of my favorite times of the year! Everything is starting to grow and the early blooms are coming out. The Iris, Lungwort, Clematis and Columbine are blooming, (The Columbine have also started popping up throughout the garden). The Peony has many buds, as do the roses. The Coneflowers, Scabiosa, Salvia, Hosta and…

I’m on a roll. The weather has been cooperating with my ability to be outside and every afternoon from 3 until 6 or 7:00 that is where I am. The first day this week I started in the garden bed that has Bee Balm, Beauty Bush, Butterfly Bush, Iris,’ Milkweed and Crocosmia. The Bee Balm,…

In past two days the weather has been cooperating, (high 60’s/70) for me to get back into the garden. Both days I went out late in the afternoon, (daylight savings time has helped). It’s funny that I used to limit myself. If I rode my bike, then I couldn’t work in the garden. If I…

This morning I saw the bluebirds making a nest in the bluebird house! That makes me so happy!

Yesterday was 75 degrees and sunny. yeah! I wanted to get outside and prune the roses. I have eight rose bushes and three of them were here when we moved in and have grown a little out of control. I had been hesitant on pruning, because I wasn’t sure when to do it. By volunteering…

We are in the middle of January and not much is happening in the garden. I take this time to notice the silhouette of the bare trees and tall grasses with their fronds. I appreciate the bright green and red berries of the holly and nandina, and I like to watch the wildlife coming to…

The past two days I have been in the garden weeding. I usually get real pleasure from weeding, give me a good root and I’ll dig and tug till I get the sucker! Anyway, I’ve been working on a couple of beds that had some other problems. The first bed had Bee Balm, Beauty Bush,…

Finally the weather has broke and we’ve had a few cooler days. I’ve been able to get out in the garden for a couple of mornings and was able to weed and clean up the front perennial garden. The wiregrass, (which I’m constantly trying to eradicate), again found its way into the garden. I also…

A couple of days had cooled down enough for me to get out in the garden and start weeding. I tell you, if weeds were desirable, I would have the best garden ever! Actually the garden beds themselves aren’t too bad, the weeds are all at the edges of the beds, in between the edging…