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I’ve been a consumer for a long time. A long time. Yet I still fall prey to smart marketing that sells me the wrong thing. Hard to believe? Its true, and I bet you do it too. Take annuals for example. As someone who has run garden club plant sales, I know that trays of . . . → Read More: Topping Annuals When You Get Them Home From The Nursery I tried a mum experiment last fall. It was my justification for doing what I wanted to do anyway – buy mums! My quandary with buying mums in the autumn is that they don’t often come back for me. If I can find some this spring, I’ll plant them now. It will be cheaper. I will . . . → Read More: 4 Out Of 5 Mums Came Back If a groundcover is going be covering my ground, it better do more than just that. I expect my groundcover to bloom too. Candytuft must have gotten that message, because bloom it does. Let’s try that paragraph again with a capital BLOOM: If a groundcover is going be covering my ground, it better do more . . . → Read More: Groundcover Envy – Candytuft on Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day I propose that there is no such thing as an ordinary tulip. This tulip is one of many many many we saw at Sun City in Huntley this weekend. At first glance, we saw just rows and rows of tulips. But Mike pulled the car over because he knew I’d see more than that through . . . → Read More: Not Your Ordinary Tulip The Elk Grove Garden Club had their plant sale Saturday. As always, a bunch of characters. More sales this weekend: Saturday May 14, 10 AM – 2 PM Central States Dahlia Society at Kinsch’s Garden Center 301 West Johnson Street Palatine, Illinois Saturday May 14, 9 AM – . . . → Read More: The Characters At The Elk Grove Plant Sale I’ve so excited! I won an honorable mention in Gardening Gone Wild’s April photo contest. That’s huge for someone who had never even entered a photo contest before. To see more of the entries, meander on over to Gardening Gone Wild. You can also see more of the pictures I considered entering by looking at . . . → Read More: This Picture Is Not In The Shadows Anymore It is never too late for creativity, though it is too late to go to see it personally at the Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques & Garden Fair. The fair was last weekend, and I’m sooo glad I went. I’ve never been to the antique fair before, as I knew the prices would be out of . . . → Read More: Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques & Garden Fair – The Ideas Are Free Look at this live stream of baby eagles on USTREAM. I’m watching Mom and Dad eagle and the little babies right now. I even hear them peeping. Soooo cute! Video clips at Ustream Decorah Eagles – As of 4/20/11 Total views: 48,400,160 The Raptor Resource Project brings you the Decorah Eagles from atop their . . . → Read More: Baby Eagles Update 5-12-11: I got an honorable mention in this April photo contest. Now I’m planning my attack for the May contest!!!! How perfect. I had often stared at my refrigerator (yes my refrigerator) over the last few weeks. In morning’s first light, a nearby plant cast an intriguing shadow. Thanks to GardeningGoneWild, I knew . . . → Read More: I See The Light I couldn’t help but make this scilla picture into my screensaver. It’s ideal with the vivid colors, and yet has room at the top and bottom for all those icons. Scilla is so lovely this time of year. Ours is planted with periwinkle, winter aconite, and grape hyacinths under a big maple tree. Grass . . . → Read More: Scilla Screensaver – Celebrating Spring On Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day |
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