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Win Your Own Copy of Gardening in Miniature! 21 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
Photo credit: Kate Baldwin Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It’s hard to look at a scene like this and not be enchanted. Tiny things, especially tiny growing things are just downrig...
An Angel on the Bus (and a Giveaway!) 21 Aug 2013 | 02:58 am
Orange circle trellis in the display gardens at Sunset Magazine Headquarters Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE After taking in the beautiful grounds of Sunset Magazine Headquarters i...
August isn't so bad this year! 16 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
Usually August is my least favorite month, but so far this year, there hasn't been much to be unhappy about. (We won't mention the M word, so other than them!) Rainfall has been nearly perfect in our ...
Sweet Rebloom 10 Aug 2013 | 03:13 am
I have had terrible luck with this plant in the past—or, more like it: this plant had back luck with me! I threw away a dormant pot of it once, only realizing what I had done weeks later. And deer and...
Just rescued from the compost pile... 9 Aug 2013 | 02:48 am
...two small avocado trees. I was out inspecting the compost because I thought I might find a sprouted mango pit. My teenager thought that was weird, but I knew you would understand. I had heard that...
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 6 Aug 2013 | 07:01 am
It doesn't matter that we have butterfly bush and coneflower and Joe-pye and ironweed—if we have zinnias, that's where the butterflies are. The fact that my zinnias are all pink this year didn't bothe...
Re: Cardinal Flower 3 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
I was excited to read about cardinal flower this morning in the Charlotte Observer. Great minds think alike, apparently. (Or maybe we just grow the same plants!) Nancy Brachey's article, "Cardinal flo...
The Rewards of Habitat Gardening 2 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
The Golfer Bird has laid eggs in my hosta. ~*~
Leaf-footed Bug 2 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
On the garden bench this morning, and looking fierce—this leaf-footed bug. Acanthocephalus terminalis? A. femorata? I really couldn't find any pictures that looked just like this one. His body is abo...
Where Did You Say You Parked? 1 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
This morning I had to take my daughter to the Department of Social Services to get a work permit. As you might imagine, there were a lot of other people there already, and finding a place to park was ...
