it , the ground, was too frozen.

Saturday, June 15, 2013. To say we had some rain in the last week, is an understatement. These are not puddles but two places that the stream has flowed over the road. This all started with one peppermint crinum plant. Now we can get up to 50 blooms from the expanded plant. Maybe I will add a little lime and see what happens. Below gives you an idea how big the blooms are. Just gets bigger each year.

Gardening, Containers, Planning, Garden Coaching, Perennials, Annuals, Shrubs, Evergreens, Bulbs. Friday, September 18, 2015. I have worked for the past several years to change that with blooms in the spring, summer, fall and even winter color. Multi-Blue Clematis is reblooming lightly with just the top stems cut back. Rudbeckia Subtomentosa with Miscanthus Udine.

English-style Gardening in the Poconos. Saturday, March 31, 2018. Planning the 2018 Kitchen Garden. Packeted seeds and saved seeds, for the new gardening year. Seed exchange and have been the recipient of her wonderful bounty. As you probably know, I use raised beds and the square-foot gardening method. I love my cucumber frame. Swiss chard grew successfully in the cold frame after the first frost.

Notes from a beginning gardener with sprinkles of poetry and philosophic musings. Sunday, April 15, 2018. After my many years of teaching, I suspect, however, that she repeated this mantra as much to keep her own frustrations in check as much as ours. I know I would have. I have several different colored singles, a.

Join me daily as I blog about life in upstate New York, caregiving, photography, flowers and gardening, the U. Civil War, my brother in law with autism, and anything else on my mind. Thursday, August 13, 2015. Throwback Thursday - The Peanut President. I have visited several United States Presidential birthplaces or childhood homes. The varied backgrounds of our Presidents are always a source of amazement for me. Here is a post I wrote on Jimmy Carter in 2010, when I visited his birthplace in Georgia.

Saturday, August 8, 2015. Lightning destroyed a tree on our property on Thursday, an ancient oak with Spanish moss hanging from the branches. This tree, or one like it. This is the view I got when I drove into the pasture. Long strips of bark were ripped off and thrown several yards away from the tree. I drove around what was left, taking pics as I went.

Thursday, July 16, 2015. MIA During a Floriferous Time of Year. The front border is full of flowers, and the neighboring farm beyond the fence and field provides a picturesque view. Flowers, Flowers Everywhere! At any rate, I finally had a chance .

I knew I would find it eventually.