My husband and I love to travel and to include our daughters in our journeys. Both of our children were on airplanes when they were just babies. My oldest daughter had been to four countries and had four stamps in her passport before she was one-year-old. There is a big world out there to see […]
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Garden Lessons: Chapter II
And so begins Chapter II of the post I wrote in March, entitled “Garden Lessons,” about the struggles encountered on a project with deer, too much shade and the right plant in the wrong place or the wrong plant in the right place. The first order of business was clearing out the back of the […]
Fall Chores: Taking in Annuals to Overwinter in the House
I guess it’s time for me to finally admit that summer is really over. As I write this on a chilly, wet day, I’m looking out the window at a lawn covered in russet colored leaves, pots of mums and pumpkins hanging from the trees. When we had that last blast of 80 degree weather a […]
Summer is Not Over Yet
On the left is the remains of the Hydrangea macrophylla beside the Hakonechloa macra “All Gold.” On the right, the Hibiscus moscheutos “Pink Cloud,” commonly known as Rose Mallow, is breathtaking against the blue sky. By the time you read this, it will be the end of the first week in September and hopefully the […]
Landscaping Before and After
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what can be possible for a landscape. You look through magazines or see photos of completed landscape design projects and they are beautiful and perfectly manicured. You might think you could never achieve that in your own garden. But what a different picture it would give you if you saw the before images. What is […]
