Last week I took a little drive to meet my blogging friends. ~It’s true, the people we talk to on blogs don’t just live in the internet. They are real. ~ Donalyn Ketchum ( dlynz.com ), Kathy Purdy(Cold Climate Gardening), Jenn Fowler (Frugal upstate), and myself do our best to meet up every month to have lunch and talk [...]
away today after yesterday’s soaking rain. My plants seem to have given a sigh of relief now that they have had a good long drenching. We could use even more rain but I keep hoping it doesn’t choose Saturday to give it to us. I am throwing a baby shower brunch and rain is [...]
It’s hard to believe a year has gone by since the first time I posted this blog. I have met so many kind and encouraging people that share the same passion~Gardening. The year mark has made me look back and compare my garden to one year ago and even back to when we bought this house [...]
Working in my garden today, I was taken back by the lovely scent of lilacs. Their delicate fragance floats in the air in little wisps that catch your attention. They are such pretty flowers in shades of purple, periwinkle and white. I have planted many lilacs in the 3 years since we bought this house, [...]
Today it snowed, sleeted, rained, gusted winds, and the sun even peeked out for a quick minute. A horrible mix of weather with cold temperatures and wind chills to boot. Needless to say I was not a very happy girl. An occasional rainy day is always welcomed but mostly I want sunshine and plenty of it. I spent [...]
If there is one thing I have learned from blogging, it’s that gardeners love to watch birds. Most -anyway. They seem to go hand in hand. Here are the birdhouses now available at Garden Shoes Online. I have my house ready for a bird to move in. I have never been lucky with such things. I [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! To spite the warmish weather we had for the past week or so, we still don’t have a lot of flowers bursting out yet. I have a few that are reeeaaallly trying but they aren’t amounting to much. To spite the clear sunny day, today was only in the fifties with [...]
Everyone is ready for springtime and that was very apparent at the Philadelphia Flower Show. So instead of more snow pictures I will share a few more of the sights I saw there last Friday. This is what I wish my outdoor Wednesday looked like. But it still looks the same outdoors here, even though our [...]
Dahlias are great flowers that give such pleasure with their different colors and constant blooms. They are tubers that bloom in the summer and grow well in full sun. They are hardy in zones 7 – 11. If you live where it gets very cold, you have to dig them up after the first killing frost and store [...]
There isn’t much outdoors to look at except dreary skies and occasional spits of snow or rain. Really a yucky day. But, I just put a bird feeder on my window so that I can enjoy seeing the birds while I type away at my computer. I also put a couple of seed bells in [...]
