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the secret lives of plants

If you ever watched a time lapse footage of a plant you can’t see the botanical world the same again....

roses

Once the rose enchants you you become a life time devotee. In all fairness who can deny this blossom anything,...

isn’t she beautiful?

Isn’t she, though? I mean, look at this, and it rained buckets! I wished for a wildflower meadow a couple...

very sage

I had to give the sage a serious hair cut so that the struggling rose could emerge from under it....

after the rain

I don’t think spring bulbs like my garden very much, because every fall I plant a fair share of them,...

guacamole

Way to go spring foliage! It’s another one of those springs that pass in a blink of an eye, I’m...

preparing the soil for a vegetable garden

Most vegetables are annual, which makes the gardener’s work to prepare their beds significantly easier. There are no roots to...

little miracles

The amount of time I spend contemplating the fresh seedlings in the starting tray would probably irritate an action oriented...

a pot of mixed basil

I always have a few pots of herbs on the balcony, which get to bask in the sunshine all summer...

got flowers

The perennial flowers have germinated, but their sprouts look tiny and fragile compared to the vegetable seedlings. This year the...