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I’m being forced out of my comfort zone this year. Like many shade gardeners, I’ve been over-dependent on impatiens for color, and I’ve been planting the same arrangement of white, pink, lavender-blue and violet impatiens in a bed at the … [ Read More ]
Ah, what a difference a year makes. Last year, during a freakishly warm spring, flowering trees and shrubs all over the Midwest were in bloom by the end of March. This year, only witch hazels are blooming, all the other … [ Read More ]
On the last night of January it was 3 degrees below zero. Just 24 hours earlier, we had a soaking rainstorm, fog and flooding. The day before that it was 60 degrees. This sort of thing is more or less … [ Read More ]
There were more catalogs than Christmas cards in the mailbox this year, starting back in November. I could have spent all my cookie-baking time dreaming of next year’s garden, but that is a treat for January. So I dutifully let … [ Read More ]
With the pots and pruners and weeders and spades hauled down to the basement, the question arises: Now or later? Cleaning, that is. Do I clean this stuff while I’m putting it away for the winter, or just jumble it … [ Read More ]
The leaves that have been swirling to the ground these last few weeks may be trash to some, but they are treasure to me. In our neighborhood, everybody but me rakes their leaves to the curb to be sucked up … [ Read More ]
The leaves started turning early this year, but not before the first little pumpkins appeared in the grocery store. It seems a little odd to have pumpkins on sale at the same time as zucchini, but not as odd as … [ Read More ]
One of the ways I knew this wasn’t going to be an ordinary summer in my garden was when I noticed a chrysanthemum trying to bloom in May. Chrysanthemums are fall flowers! Well, sort of. In their native Asia they’re … [ Read More ]
My spring vegetable crop went all awry, because a combination of freakishly warm weather and general disorganization threw my timing off. I got the herbs and tomatoes set out, but I failed to get my usual two or three crops … [ Read More ]
Everybody loves the hardy, disease-resistant shrub roses that have become so popular in the last couple of decades for their easy care and nonchalant reblooming. Many will bloom – and often rebloom after June – without deadheading, and survive even … [ Read More ]
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