With hurricane Irene bearing down on us, I am concerned the wind in our trees and flooding over my gardens. We shouldn’t have flooding, but occasionally do because of poor drainage yet to be repaired by our township…supposedly before winter…we’ll see how likely that is to happen, but I’m hopeful. The terrain in the [...]
This past Christmas, we purchased a 2+ foot busy Norfolk Island Pine in a pot that is about 1 foot tall, so it sits nicely on the top of the chest of drawers backed up to our living room couch. I have wanted to do this for years, and having our artificial tree damaged during [...]
I always tell people that I’m a gardener, as long as a plant is hard to kill, likes shade as my property has a lot of trees, and so I grow plants that are relatively easy to grow. Last Spring I put the plant pictured below in my planter next to the front door, and [...]
We’re almost finished with a tour of some photos from our Maine vacation. We took many pictures of the outdoors…gardens, woodlands, ocean scenes, and from them I’d like to share a couple of pictures. First, these Rose Hips were all over, on another earlier blog post I shared a picture of a rose we were [...]
I love writing about gardening and looking and gardens and getting my hands into the soil, but is it my passion? I was thinking about that the other day as I looked at this blog and all the posts that have accumulated over the years…and the many more that will be posted in the days [...]
