A sneak preview of Nashville Indiana, an oh so cute town filled with oh so many flowers and oh so cute stores filled with oh so cute things. I’ll let their seating areas tell the story for now. More to follow, in particular since the Brown County Garden Club has a Secret Garden Walk on . . . → Read More: Sneak Preview – Flower Filled Oh So Cute Nashville, IN
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Photo by Kevin Penczak Zephirine Drouhin has never looked better. She is blooming with wild abandon on my Chicagoland garden gate. Zeffy, as she is affectionately known at Antique Rose Emporium, is officially a zone 6 rose. I’m zone 5 and I needed a thornless rose on my garden gate. Call me silly, . . . → Read More: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – Best Blooms EVER On Thornless Rose Bill Kurtis drove me around his garden on a golf cart. Boy was I surprised. I figured the kind person offering to chauffeur us around Bill Kurtis’s garden was one of the workers. Actually, it was one of the workers – the one who just happened to be Bill Kurtis himself. That moment was just . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Open Days Program From the Garden of Faith, Hope & Love FB page There is a picture deep in our minds of what a gardener looks like, and the enchanting time they spend enjoying their garden. The image is serene and peaceful. Perhaps something like this one, complete with a graceful young lady gathering roses, clad . . . → Read More: Gardening Imagined vs. Gardening Reality I knew I was doing something wrong with my tomatoes. Big bushy plants, very few tomatoes. I even know the main problem – me! I put the plants in the ground and pretty much ignore them. I did make progress last year. At least my tomatoes got some serious support from these old fence pieces. . . . → Read More: Wally’s Tremendous (Organic) Tomato Tips You may find this hard to believe, but only 37% of the folks in Chicagoland have a flower garden. Of that 37%, only 13% have lilacs. Of those 13%, only 7% cut the flowers to make bouquets. Ok, so I made up the statistics, but the principal is true – not everyone has lilacs. . . . → Read More: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – Share Those Lilac Blooms How can it be time for Favorites on the Fifth again? Can today really be the 5th? Can it really be May? Doesn’t the world know I’m busy tagging, sorting, inventorying, and selling dahlias and can’t spend time at my computer? Is Erik Johansson really flattened onto the ironing board you see below? Ok, now . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – This Is What Creativity Looks Like In Sweden Mike and I knew that we’d eventually have to get some of the wild mulberry trees cut down. They were among the trees that line the back of our yard; at least they were till about a week ago. Now three of them are gone. There were others that could have gone too, but my . . . → Read More: Its So Sad When A Tree Has To Go Morning snow flurries are not enough to stop an afternoon gardener. After all, it is April and I am itching to get outside. I need to see what is trying to bloom for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. I need to finish getting those grasses cut down. I need to plant the Pansies. I need. I . . . → Read More: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – Buckets Of Bulbs Planted In December Are Blooming Session after session after session after session. As the On-Site Seminar Manager for the Chicago Flower & Garden show, you’ve got to figure I have some takeaways to share. No, not leftover plants from the displays (darn). For this month’s Favorites on the Fifth, I’ll share my list of favorite informational takeaways from the show. . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Top 10 Takeaways From The Chicago Flower & Garden Show  Leave a comment  Birds,bugs,butterflies, Chicago Flower and Garden Show, Favorites on the 5th, Places to go, Spring  Best Book, Best Bulb Tip, Best Gardens, Best Lawn Care Tips, Best Photography Tip, Best Quote, Chalet Nursery, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago Flower & Garden Show, Chris Olsen, Dig In, Foxwillow Pines, IDM, Impatiens Downy Mildew, Jennifer Brennan, Mike Caplan, Mike Nowak, Milkweed, Northwind Perennials, Pat Miller, Rich Eyre, Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, Roy Diblik, Shedd Aquarium, Tony Fulmer, zone 5 favorites on the 5th |
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