Gardening with Soule

Still nothing blooming outside
 but inside I have an African Violet that more than makes up for that.
I hope you are having a wonderful day! 

Early to bed, early to rise,
Work like hell: fertilize.
-   Emily Whaley 

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My husband picked an orange off the tree for me yesterday, and I thought what a nice thing to talk about for Blooms day.
Too bad he picked it in Los Angeles instead of our own New York back yard.  He was there on business and brought it home for me as a treat.  If I [...]

 There isn’t alot of flaunting of flowers here in upstate NY today.  There is however, snow,  and plenty of it.Â
Yesterday while it was snowing I did some snow blowing until that died, then I shoveled a lot, then I laid down and made a snow angel….just because  it’s fun. Â
Who am I kidding?  I laid down  because I was a [...]

 Valentines Day is the best.
 It’s all about love and the color red.
Any day that involves the giving of chocolate can’t be anything but great. 

 Last but not least, there are flowers~ especially roses.
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~Here is the deepest secret nobody knows,
Here is the root  of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky [...]

  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 [...]

of spring and summer,
warm weather and crystal clear days,
the scent of flowers in the air.Â
It will arrive…
…eventually.
I hope.
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~In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers
is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely
as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
-   Abram L. Urban
 I [...]

 

 One day, a few years back, while my son, Cam and my nephew, Michael were painting our neighbor’s house, this little guy appeared and followed Michael everywhere.  After several days of this, Mike brought him home since this cute little guy had chosen him.Â
 To his disbelief his parents were good with it even though they never thought they [...]