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, [...]
This past week, my husband and I got the materials to make our raised beds for the vegetable garden. On Friday we stained them with deck stain(matches our decks and porches). On Saturday he dodged the snowflakes and raindrops and put them together. Today, I dug up weeds and leveled the soil where we are going to place [...]
Spring arrives with the crocus, snowdrops, tulips and daffodils. I too have these and get very excited when they show their pretty faces but I don’t get to enjoy them nearly enough because it is usually too cold in this northeast climate to sit and look at them. It’s usually not even nice enough to work [...]
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 [...]
Working at Garden Shoes Online gives me the opportunity to try out different products and let you know what I think so you can know the ins and outs before you buy. These Garden Grip clogs are one of my favorite pairs of shoes. I have worn them so much this winter because they are [...]
As promised, I took a photo of my iris’s that are now opened up. I think it’s the color that really grabs me with these, although the flower itself is beautiful on it’s own. Maybe I am just so winter weary that any flower makes me giddy. Either way there is no denying that Mother Nature is [...]
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 [...]
When I think about it, it was in my mother in law’s yard, where I realized my love for gardening. Seeing how happy she was there and the beauty that she created in her little corner of the world was inspiring and I admired her gift of making her home welcoming and warm. If I were to name [...]
