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This Year’s Garden Planters

Each year I head to the local garden store to pick out flowers for the planters.  The results are rarely the same from year to year since I just pick what I like at that moment.  Sometimes I might like yellows, other times maybe purples, sometimes more upright, others lots of vines.  This year for … Continue reading This Year’s Garden Planters

Brrr, it’s Cold

As expected, we sunk down below freezing Tuesday night. Glad I got the last of the vegetables harvested. Surprisingly, many of the garden plants actually looked pretty good in the morning, but we'll see after 2 days of below freezing temperatures overnight. I ended up leaving the single perfect rosebud on the plant. In the … Continue reading Brrr, it’s Cold

The Garden in Fall: The Good

It's the beginning of October and the days are getting shorter, the nights growing colder. These are the last gasps for the garden before it settles into the winter hibernation. In some ways, fall gardens can be very pretty. I'm always surprised at the plants that continue to bloom well in to fall, some even … Continue reading The Garden in Fall: The Good