Garden-a-holics-anonymous

  I think there should be a garden-a-holics anonymous…. A place where we can be us. We can compare notes, sing the praises of daylilies, write an ode about our favorite rose or meditate on the best plants to use in our Japanese gardens. Where everyone understands why we “just have to ” buy that […]

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Alan Titchmarsh helps us to garden.

I discovered Alan Titchmarsh while I was browsing gardening videos. He is British, charming and he has a beautiful soothing voice when he speaks. Also, I’ve noticed that when he speaks, he uses normal everyday language without all the dressy long dictionary words. How to be a gardener is 8 series of videos on gardening […]

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My half moon garden construction

For the longest time I’ve dreamed of having a curving garden in front of my beautiful pine tree.  However I came across a tiny problem called digging.  Pine trees have shallow roots and there is no room to dig.  I was barely able to rip off the top grass. To bypass this little problem I […]

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A quick Viola Planter

  How many of you can resist a sticker that says 50 percent off? No I can’t either. I went to the grocery store to buy dish soap not flowers and these were just screaming take me home. So of course I bought the flowers and forgot about the dish soap, gotta go back again. […]

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Egyptian Walking Onions

Egyptian Walking Onions are one of the first plants to emerge in the spring even when there is still snow on the ground.   Many people still don’t know that this onion is a perennial.  You pop it in the ground and it grows year after year and makes lots of babies, so with just a […]

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