Containers With Pizazz ! Not Your Ordinary Container!
Reblogged from The Garden Diaries: Finesse With Containers Anyone with a flower pot can put together a container in an afternoon with a trip to the local big box store or nursery. But here are a few...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening In the Garden- May 1
Happy May Day! I hope that you had as nice a day where you are as we did in Salem. It was gorgeous out there! I had to spend some time poking around outside and checking things out. Here’s what …...
View ArticleMy Mother’s Day Gifts
We have a busy weekend here. Today’s the dance recital, which means lots of work and lots of fun! This is our ninth or tenth year of dancing, actually I should say this is “my daughter’s ninth or tenth...
View ArticleCheck Out the Link to This Wonderful Post: Creating Your Own Special Retreat...
Don’t we all need our own special retreat from the world? Here’s the link to a post by new-to-me author and blogger, Linda Buzzell. She writes about the healing benefits found in nature and the garden....
View ArticleFor the Lady I Met In Walmart Yesterday…How To Start Your Garden
Hi there! I heard you ask for help yesterday in Walmart and spoke with you a few minutes later and told you a little bit about my blog. Since then I’ve been thinking about how I can help people like...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening In the Garden-May 31
We’re rolling right along out there! The impending heat today was a great incentive to get things deeply planted and watered yesterday. It finally feels like summer is here in Salem! The potatoes are...
View ArticleEarly Morning Iris
Today’s their day! They won’t be here for long… enjoy every minute! Love, Michele
View ArticleCatching Up ~
Wow! The past eight days have flown by! I’m sorry that I’ve been so completely absent. My middle daughter was inducted into the Junior National Honor Society last week, then twenty-four hours later our...
View ArticleGarden Blogger’s Bloom Day- June 15
Happy Bloom Day! The fifteenth seems to come so quickly every month. I enjoy writing these bloom day posts because they help me to focus and appreciate my garden. I also enjoy them because I always...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in the Garden-June 30
Good Morning! Happy Sunday! The sun is out and I’m ready to rock and roll out in the garden this morning! We’ve had pretty crazy weather here in Salem, Massachusetts. It’s often been sunny out, but...
View ArticleMy Lavender Is Loaded…
With bumble bees of course, and they are amazing! I’ve been kind of obsessed with these creatures this week. On Monday we discovered that our lavender plant at work was buzzing with them so the people...
View ArticleStrolling in Salem Gardens, A Garden Tour!
This weekend is the Salem Garden Club’s Garden Stroll and I had a wonderful time “strolling” and taking in gardens all around the Common yesterday. The gardens were beautiful and the members and...
View ArticleGarden Blogger’s Bloom Day- July 2013
I have exactly five seconds to photograph, write and publish this post because I’m heading in to Boston for day two of Boston College new parent orientation this morning. So busy and so much fun!...
View ArticleI Should–
Michael and I spent a few precious hours in the garden late in the day today and I just felt like I “had” to take some photos and get this post done because I was writing in my head. Does … Continue...
View ArticleMy Favorite Gardening Books, and Yours?
Yesterday one of my co-workers asked me what gardening book I would recommend for beginners and I had to stop and really think about it. I love so many gardening books that it’s hard to choose, and I...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening In the Garden- August 7
Let’s see, where to start…After lots of rain early on the weather has been beautiful for the past couple of days. We’ve had a few perfect garden days. I love, love, love those days! Here’s one of our...
View ArticleA Cauliflower Question
WARNING… this is not a pretty post! If you can’t handle some serious ugliness run while you can! Don’t look any further! Just move on to the next blog (but please come back here tomorrow)… I’m sorry,...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening In the Garden– September 10
I am hanging on to summer, that’s what’s happening here. With fall on our doorstep people keep saying that fall is their favorite season. I’m sorry, I just can’t join them, I’m a summer girl, that’s...
View ArticleProcess or Product?— I’m a Process Gardener
I’m sorry, I’ve been away, lost in the realm of back to school routines and commitments that make me run (sometimes literally) from 6 am to 9pm most days. I need to get back to my blog so I’m going...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening In the Garden– September 30
Hey everyone! It looks like I’m a one post a week blogger at the moment. It’s fall and I’m all over the place…I know I keep saying that life is busy, but, really, it is. To add to it Halloween in Salem...
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