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Tropical Color in the Garden
I love tropical looking plants in my garden! I love the big, textured leaves and the vibrant color of the flowers. Since I live in the midwest, we can only grow them as annuals in our backyard. We keep as many as we can as houseplants when it turns c...
Fresh from the Garden
After all the hard work of preparing the Spring garden - tilling, and planting seeds and tiny seedlings, it's wonderful to reap the rewards. Fresh produce from our own backyard! We had a delicious salad and some roasted asparagus with dinner last nig...
Let's Go Outside!
It was a weekend of unusally warm weather here in central Indiana. Fresh green foliage is unfolding everywhere and the sights and sounds of Spring beckon us outside! The leaves are unfolding on all the trees. The blooming trees are fragrant. Bleeding...
Share Your Backyard Bounty
Plant a Row for the Hungry.There are over 84 million households with a yard or garden in the U.S. If every gardener plants one extra row of vegetables and donates their surplus to local food agencies and soup kitchens, a significant impact can be mad...
Beautiful Blooms
My amaryllis is blooming!The beautiful trumpet shaped flowers and rich colorsreally brighten a winter day.Amaryllis are easy to grow from bulbs as an indoor house plant and most varieties start to bloom in just about 7 weeks. I love the pretty warm p...
What a Surprise!
These flowers are what I've always called Surprise Lily. Some people know them as Magic Lily or Naked Lady. They grow from bulbs that just produce leaves in the Spring. The leaves are a thick clump that resemble wide daffodil leaves. After a few week...
The Color of Roses
All roses symbolize love, but their colors have special meanings.Use the list below to choose the shade that best matches your feelings. Red - love, passion, respect, courageYellow - joy, friendship, freedomPink - happiness, gratitude, appreciation, ...
Bluebirds in the Garden
A pair of Eastern Bluebirds are building a nest in one of our nesting boxes! They haven't used the boxes for a couple of years, so it's good to have them back. The nesting box is close to our screened porch so we have a great view of the pretty litt...
A Frog With a Tail
Take a look at this little guy. . . not quite a full fledged frog, he still has his tadpole tail! He must have just emerged from one of our little garden ponds and hopped across the patio to sit on the edge of this fountain. I hadn't seen one at qui...
Awesome Asparagus
Asparagus spears growing in my garden.Asparagus spears ready for dinner.Asparagus plants mature very slowly. It takes three years from seed to first light harvest. Most gardeners buy one year old roots to plant and still have to wait two years to har...
Got Spring Fever?
Do you have Spring Fever? Boy, I sure do! Over the weekend, we went to one of my favorite local garden centers. They have a vast array of bedding plants, vegetables, perrenials and nursery stock. The best part is just looking around inside the fragra...
