Now that I made my first stepping stone, I can’t wait to make more. And I’m not gonna wait. John will be over with the kids Thursday and it’s time for handprints in stepping stones for Grandma (that’s me). Allie is 4 and Cameron is 1. Allie and I will do ours while Cameron naps . . . → Read More: How To Make A Stepping Stone – So Easy!
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It’s automatic – We see a rose; we smell the rose. Seems kind of like a useless exercise these days, as so many roses have had the fragrance bred out of them. It’s not that hybridizers don’t like fragrance, it’s just that we consumers insist on roses that are disease resistant, survive the elements, and . . . → Read More: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – Louie’s Favorite Fragrant Roses This is so perfect – a twofer. Yep, two for the price of one. Today’s Favorites on the Fifth covers creativity and About.com. We’ll use About.com as our reference tool for left brain vs. right brain, and for creative garden recycling tips. Personally, I’m creative. It may take me a while to come up with . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – About.com’s Creative Garden Recycling Tips 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 It’s Elementary. Valentine’s Day is not the time to make a Boo Boo Honey. You want your loved one to know they are a Person of Interest to you. Whether you are a Modern Family or among the Young and the Restless, you don’t have to Keep Up With the Kardishians or take a . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Don’t Make A Boo Boo Honey For Valentine’s Day Here’s an easy idea for your yard in winter – display the sled. In our case, that meant Mike had to climb up into the deep dark recesses of the far corner of that attic, drag it down, and carry it to the yard. That’s ok. He had a few Christmas cookies to wear off, . . . → Read More: Winter Interest – The Sled Today we celebrate creativity. At least I do. In particular, I celebrate that I’ll be speaking about ‘Creativity in the Garden’ at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show on March 12th. The topic has intrigued me for a long time, and now it will be time for me to do something about it. Something creative. . . . → Read More: Zone 5 – Favorites On The 5th – Creativity in the Garden A garden distinctly marks the passage of time. Kind of like life, with people growing and shining, and sadly over time, gone. We are experiencing this in both our garden walk and life walk in pronounced ways. Dahlias gone, mums shining, Linda failing, grandchildren shining. In the category of ‘gone’, we have the dahlias. Mike’s . . . → Read More: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – For Everything There Is A Season I am amazed by fax machines. I know fax machines are old fashioned, but I am still somehow surprised when words automajically jump from one page to another. I am amazed by how many people have never made a scarecrow. I know scarecrows are old fashioned, but I am still somehow surprised how many people . . . → Read More: How To Make A Scarecrow Mike says “We plant flowers the old fashioned way – We urn them”… Cousin It came to the garden walk at the Olsen’s… A guaranteed way to kill the slug… Is this what they meant when they said “A bird in the pot is worth two in the bush?”… . . . → Read More: A Bit Of Garden Humor |
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