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Blue Eyed Mary

The garden wore blue and white flowers for Easter, really pretty and fresh in the sunlight. The blue-eyed Marys dressed the soil under the crab apple tree in delicate...

Wild Garden

It rained after a long time, it rained over the wilderness of the garden, over the random mishmash of overgrown...

Flowering Ground Covers

I can’t figure out the precise point when a fast spreading plant becomes a ground cover. Some, like ivy, periwinkle...

Chiaroscuro

I don’t even know how this picture happened, there is so much sunshine in the vegetable garden that getting such...

Cure for the Unrelenting Blah

In anticipation of good weather I’m already planning some gardening activities, there are summer bulbs to be planted and perennials beds to be cleaned...

Keeping Roses Healthy

Having healthy roses is more about prevention than it is about cure. Give the shrubsplenty of space to prevent moisture from sticking...

Aromatic vinegars

I dug up a beautiful decorative bottle from the closet and made opal basil infused vinegar. You have to go out in the...

Fairytale

This morning I stepped out of the house into an frozen slushy fairytale. It snowed all night, and right after dawn the luminous...

The New Veggie Garden

The date of the last frost came and went and I eagerly set out to plant this year’s vegetable garden. I will say...

Troubleshooting Roses

Roses have earned the dubious privilege of being considered sensitive and difficult to grow. This is not entirely true of course, a...