I am not the consummate gardener. I just enjoy flowers and do my best to tend them well and not kill them. I have decent success. I don't win them all, but I hold my own. I am presently disappointed though as my Persian buttercups are seriously waning. I had them in big pots in [...]
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One can never have too many flowers…
I took a quick trip to Menards today. I have made a few such trips recently. Truth-be-told, I have been methodically checking in on the Menards' garden center. Some may call it stalking. The simple fact is I have been chomping at the bit for the opportunity to find some new lovelies for my garden [...]
The intermittent gardener…
On days when the temperatures are tolerable I do marathon sessions in my garden. I typically tell myself that I will just be out there for two hours and six hours later when I wander back inside I wonder how it got to be so late in the day. Such is the way when you [...]
Sitting out in the dirt…
I spent many hours in my garden today. I find work in the garden so gratifying and peaceful. It is a chance to think quiet thoughts while doing productive work that results in one of my greatest joys - a garden filled with beautiful flowers. My garden got a late start this year and was [...]
What goes around, comes around.
Last year I had Mike bunny-proof the garden after the adorable little bunny babies that visited us daily had consumed a couple hundred dollars worth of plants by gnawing them down to mere stems. Of particular dismay was the power eating they conducted on my hollyhocks. Apparently, one can have bunnies or hollyhocks in one's [...]
The season of dirty fingernails – garden therapy 2013.
I have concluded that my mental health is greatly improved by a day out in the garden. Yesterday was my first real concentrated effort in garden therapy and in the few short hours I invested I was reminded of the immense gratification and stress relief I get out of planting and nurturing plants and flowers. [...]
My garden companions have returned…
I have been uplifted by three straight days of robin sightings. The robins are back in the area my friends. I have seen a pair of them frequenting my deck. I wonder if they are the babies from last year that the mother robin so meticulously watched over. I wonder if they have come back [...]
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