Christmas Gifts For The Gardener – What Did Carol Get?

What did I get for Christmas?? Let’s start with what I didn’t get…

I did not get a new grandchild. The doctor says tomorrow. Really. I did not get Christmas dinner at my brother Bob’s house. We got to make dinner at our house with 3 hour notice and only the Japanese grocery store open. . . . → Read More: Christmas Gifts For The Gardener – What Did Carol Get?

Christmas Gifts For The Gardener – And For The Birds

Here is an opportunity to please your gardening friend, as well as his or her feathered friends. When it comes to Christmas gifts, Wild Birds Unlimited has a great variety of bird feeders and supplies.

Saturday morning at our house is for the birds.  Well, not literally, but they can reliably be seen right outside of . . . → Read More: Christmas Gifts For The Gardener – And For The Birds

Christmas Gifts For The Gardener – The Best Gift Of All

I have received so many amazing gifts. For example, my family, which includes my son Kevin, who took these pictures.

The pictures are of other gifts I have received as a gardener, like this rose of sharon that God gave me.

And this crab apple tree that God gave me. And this millions bells . . . → Read More: Christmas Gifts For The Gardener – The Best Gift Of All

A Lovely One On Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day

It’s lovely. It’s lonely. One beautiful rose.

Not much else going on in the bloom department today. And anyway, I want to move on to Christmas gifts for the gardener. So let’s go to Christmas Gifts for the Gardener – The Right Vase, Defined.

What else is blooming in the November garden? To see what . . . → Read More: A Lovely One On Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day

Enjoying November Gardening Tasks

Days like today remind me that gardening, like so many ventures, is more about the ride than the results. Don’t get me wrong, I do love having a table full of dahlias to share, like these from a few weeks ago.

And I love having this view as just one part of the vista we . . . → Read More: Enjoying November Gardening Tasks

Normal Rockwell Moments At Morton Arboretum

It was like a Normal Rockwell painting. Autumn leaves slowly swaying back and forth during their descent; a crunchy-crackly-kickable layer already covering the ground. Ghost and goblin costumed children laughing as they rolled down hills. A not so very scary maze decorated with spiders and cob webs, with even more children scampering throughout. Mike & . . . → Read More: Normal Rockwell Moments At Morton Arboretum

The End Is Near On Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day

I hate to admit it, but next month at this time, my garden will be pretty much done for the year.  So I’m not going to admit it.  I’m going to be oblivious to reality and just enjoy that my garden still has beautiful flowers.  Oh sure there are dahlias.  With 100 plants that go . . . → Read More: The End Is Near On Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day

Shermin’s Day

Beautiful flowers for Shermin. Creative fun for me. Looks like a win-win. Shermin’s engagement party just happened to fall during prime dahlia season. You can see that I had no shortage of blooms for table arrangements.

Yes, there was quite a palette to pick from. You can see here that we even grow dinner-plate . . . → Read More: Shermin’s Day

Watsamatter With My Spider Plant?

Some things just don’t make any sense. When I got this spider plant from Dawn last summer, I put it outside and basically left it to tend for itself. It was beautiful. Now, it’s been inside instead, and at the end of this summer, it looks bad.

It’s really very sad. I garden with . . . → Read More: Watsamatter With My Spider Plant?

Autumn Abundance And Scarecrows

How can it be that today is September 20th? Summer has come, and summer has gone. 

Already, my garden screams AUTUMN. The garden has an overall appearance of being less tended at this point.  That’s because it is.  That’s because I like it that way in the fall.   There are spent blooms with seeds for the . . . → Read More: Autumn Abundance And Scarecrows