Freshly Handmade or Grown On Our Family Farm. Hobnobbing with a famous author.

Spring sampler in a vase. Three sprigs of pussy willows. So Welcome, Spring! .

Mossy, fecund thoughts about gardening and nature. high of 23 next Tuesday! These are the hardest weeks for me as a gardener and human being. As recently as last week, I was.

THE LITTLE WHITE COTTAGE - Blog Candy. Mi jardín, mi paraíso. Three Dogs in a Garden.

Vergeet niet de vogels te voeren aub. The pond looks like a mirror. The waterfall is still working. Fish are swimming under the ice. Dog prints in the snow. A change over in the garden, a new terrace and a porch! So I can sit outside even when it is raining.

Life in and around the garden. My zone 4 garden is not always kind to these plants, they often die off from harsh winter temps, but I keep trying. Even if I can only grow them as annuals, they add such color and charm to the garden.

Landscape Design and Garden Blog. Here is a project that kept me busy this summer and fall. This was the scene that greeted me as I walked up to meet my latest clients at a large sweeping property near lake Travis. Most of the plantings were as old as the house and were not doing anything to visually lift the property. The random assortment of pruned boxwoods. Especially this front horseshoe area.

A plant list for Rwanda. Made between 1904 and 1935, via. This lantern slide was used in photography class lectures at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Texas, May 1943, by John Vachon, via.

Failure is no longer funny. I want a nice garden and I want it now. A patch of dirt or a garden? .

My life with weeds, rain and yellow clay. Mine is usually a June garden, but this year it has mostly been a May one. That, I think, is mostly due to the frost-free winter. The June weather has not been wonderful, but the long evenings this far north mean that on the rare occasions the sun is out, the colours linger late.