Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, The other day on the way home from work, I stopped at a garden center and bought some grass seed and on impulse picked up the 2011 Old Farmer’s Almanac. I guess that means I am officially looking forward to next year’s vegetable garden and am ready to give up on this year’s vegetable garden.

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Dear Friends and Gardeners September 6, 2010

Coleus ‘Crimson Gold’ You might be a gardening geek on Labor Day if… You plan to spend this bonus day off in your garden and hope it doesn’t rain even though you need rain and desperately want it to rain. You consider this weekend your drop dead date for ordering bulbs to plant this fall

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Gardening Geek: Labor Day Edition

A grandfather and granddaughter travelled and made their living performing balancing acts. They asked a wise man what was the best way to safeguard and care for each other. The grandfather suggested that each should care for the other, that he should care for his granddaughter in the balancing and she should take care of him

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Wisdom of the World – week 118

By Sharon Halkovics, Director of Home Cook Classes We’re aware that Home Cooks can oftentimes fall into one of two camps: those who follow recipes and those who wing it.  Of course there are cooks who do both, but leaning strongly to one side versus the other is somewhat of a style-thing, but also somewhat dependant on one’s level of cooking experience.  I personally ‘wing it’ most of the time (always have), but I do so especially in summer and fall months when the garden is happily producing and I’m trying to be thrifty to use up every precious item I grow.

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No Recipes Required

Callicarpa dichotoma ‘Early Amethyst’ Through my 10 20 30 many seasons of gardening, I’ve come to realize that September is just as important a month in deciding how the garden will look in the springtime, as May is for deciding how the garden will look in the summertime. September… it’s the fall May, at least in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden

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September – The Fall May

I find it very confusing to be in a garden where plants are blooming everywhere you look and there is no place to rest your eyes without seeing something else that screams out to be seen or if you do stop and look at one bloom you have this feeling that you are missing something or not looking at the right plant as if all the flowers you aren’t looking at are tapping you on the shoulder and

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Garden Design Elements: Seasonal-shift

It’s late August and our thoughts turn to buying bulbs to plant this fall for spring flowers next year. With the garden design in progress, an overall busy summer, and a garden so dry that it seems to be sucking not only water from the faucet but bulb buying motivation from my very gardening soul, I have not yet purchased bulbs.

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Three Acronyms To Help You With Bulb Planting

Garden designs, as it turns out, often take a break in the summer time, or at least mine is. My last assignment from the garden designer for the garden design was to mull over a list of suggestions she sent me for the backyard borders and give her some feedback. That was a month ago, and from then until now, we’ve had very little rain and it has been very very hot, so mulling has been difficult

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Garden Design Update: Need To Mull, Soon

Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, This past week we got to experience something that hasn’t happened around here in years. Years, I tell you. Unfortunately that something was every blessed day the high temperature was in the 90’s — 95, 97, 98, 96, 96, 92, 96 through yesterday to be exact

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Dear Friends and Gardeners August 16, 2010

Here we are, on the eve of another Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. I’ll head out in a bit to see what is blooming in my garden, thinking about Elizabeth Lawrence, and her quote that inspired bloom day, “We can have blooms nearly every month of the year.” I received an email the other day letting me know that Elizabeth Lawrence’s garden and five other gardens will be open for The Garden Conservancy

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On The Eve of Bloom Day: Elizabeth Lawrence’s Garden

As I lean over the row of marigolds just beginning to bloom, I remember my Dad’s garden. I remember summer days that seemed to go on forever, and the end of that forever when school started with yet a new forever. I recall the garden in its end of summer state, with marigolds blooming along the edge and dahlias and zinnias tied to stakes

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The Key To Making Your Garden Memorable: Scent

It’s back to school time and our thoughts turn to gardening as they always do. As I trimmed back the Blue Dogbane, Amsonia tabernaemontana, the other evening, I couldn’t help but notice the white sap which looks a lot like Elmer’s Glue and seems just as sticky

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Back to School Time And Our Thoughts Turn To Gardening

Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, This letter post is my 1,500th post on this blog. I thought about delaying this letter and writing something else to mark the occasion, but then I realized that this weekly letter which usually has an update on my garden is a fitting way to mark this occasion.

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Dear Friends and Gardeners August 2, 2010

You might be a blogging gardening geek if… You consider your digital camera an essential gardening tool because while you are out in the garden, you just might see something that cries out to be shared on your blog. After all, that zinnia is so pretty and it only exists for a moment in time in just that light. Bonus points if you have more than one digital camera

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You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Blogging Edition

If someone figured up that in your lifetime you would earn a million dollars and then gave you the million dollars at the beginning of your working life, how motivated would you be to learn to work and then to really work? If someone gave you a garden all planted and pruned and weeded when you first started gardening, how motivated would you be to learn to garden and then to really garden?

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Making A Garden

By Sarah Blecher CSR’s Office Manager & Social Media Strategist Some of you may remember (but don’t worry, I don’t expect you to) back in April I wrote a guest, guest blog post about my new obsession with gardening.

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Hello, Mr. Cucumber.

We have reached the days of summer when we can catch a glimpse, if we squint into the glare of the hot sun, at what our gardens could become if we left them alone to fend for themselves. Because we are leaving them alone, or at least I am. Driven indoors on hot days when every dog, cat, and rabbit seeks out the shade from mid-morning on, I watch from the windows to see weeds take root and

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Wildflower Wednesday: On The Brink Of Wild

As the garden design continues… This week, the garden designer sent me a map of the backyard with the provisional names of each garden area noted on it, and a bulleted list of the ideas and suggestions she has for each of these garden areas. I now get to mull over the ideas and send her back comments and questions.

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As The Garden Design Continues…

Hortense Hoelove makes a special appearance on a hot Friday afternoon to answer more questions about gardening, gardeners, gardens, and everything related. Dear Hortense Hoelove, Do you ever feel like someone is watching you while you garden?

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Hortense Hoelove Makes A Surprise Friday Appearance

While in Buffalo, NY for Buffa10, I posted a little piece on water features and received an email  from one of many of Buffalo’s excellent gardeners, inviting me to see his garden and water feature, which was located across the street from our hotel. Christopher Voltz wrote, “I have a garden “Hope Blooms” at The Victorian which has been on Garden Walk Buffalo for six or seven years and

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The Window Ledge at Hope Blooms