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Hi, I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of my garden friends who have wondered why I haven’t been posting as often as I had been.
Things have gotten a bit sporatic because my husband became ill and died in October. As you can imagine, it threw my world into turmoil and [...]
Every year my garden starts off neatly raked and ready to go. By August, the almost daily Florida rains have everything growing so fast that if you blink the weeds take over. Look at my poor tree garden. Mowing is getting hard because I can’t tell where the garden starts and the [...]
When I was a little girl I used to hear people say that your plants would do better if you talked to them. I think most gardeners would agree that we tend to develop affection for certain plants and maybe occasionally talk to them but I doubt it is on our “To Do” list.
Last year I [...]
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As much as we love gardens and the statues that adorn them, we’re also concerned about the environment. When I had a professional nursery, we were always on the lookout for ways to save water and cut our chemical use. Sometimes it was as easy as adding oil and soap to [...]
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Sometimes when you have been doing something for a long time, you forget that others may not know some of the basic things you take for granted. I recently posted an article called If You Are Starting A Garden – Count The Cost. In it I mentioned that one reason seed companies have [...]
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