Life has been quite busy, which has kept me out of the garden much of the time. Of course, the with the hot temperatures of summer, I probably wouldn’t be spending a lot of time outdoors, regardless of how busy I have been. I did spend some time weeding my vegetable garden last week and […]
Do you enjoy going out into the garden in summer? I don’t! I admit to sometimes neglecting my garden when the temperatures go above the century mark. My aversion to gardening in a furnace is one of the reasons that I like to use desert-adapted plants that don’t need much attention. One of my favorite fuss-free […]
I am always on the lookout for new ways to display annual flowers. I’ll do anything from transforming old, antiques into planters to using brightly-colored containers. On a recent visit to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens in Wisconsin, I saw this creative use of an old, decaying tree trunk… What a great example of a […]
Do you like red yucca (Hesperaloe parvifolia)? Landscapes throughout the desert southwest come alive in spring and early summer as the coral-colored blooms of red yucca burst forth. There are a few reasons that this succulent is a popular plant. For one, its grass-like foliage add texture to the garden, even when not in flower. […]
Do you have a list of favorite plants for your Southwestern garden? I do. Today, I’d like to share with you about one of my favorite shrubs, desert ruellia (Ruellia peninsularis). It has beautiful, light-green foliage and purple flowers that appear off an on throughout the year, with the heaviest bloom occurring in spring. Unlike its cousin […]
Do you have friends with whom you share a common interest? I do. My friend and fellow blogger, Amy Andrychowicz of Get Busy Gardening loves gardening as much as I do. Amy and I have spent time together in Arizona and later in Florida. Last week, while on a road trip through the Midwest, I made sure […]
It’s a beautiful summer day outside, yet my mind is on fall and Halloween? Why? Because, this is what I discovered growing in my vegetable garden this morning… Okay, maybe you cannot see it yet, but once you part the leaves… You can see a white pumpkin happily growing. I’m so excited to have a pumpkin growing […]
It’s hard to believe that our road trip has come to a close. Our last day was filled with some memorable adventures. We woke up to an overcast morning at our bed & breakfast. You know what the best part of staying at a B&B is? The breakfasts! We started out with strawberries and bananas on a […]
Today was spent driving from Wisconsin, over the Mississippi River into southeastern Minnesota. Bridge over the Mississippi River toward Minnesota. *Cell phone + dirty windshield = grainy photo. You know how people who haven’t lived near the ocean, find it fascinating when they get the chance to visit? I think it is somewhat the same […]
Day 6 of our road trip began with gray, dreary skies and a chilly breeze. We decided to spend our time in Madison, Wisconsin by seeing the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, which were rated as the #1 attraction by Trip Advisor. As we left our hotel, we were faced by roads under construction. Summer […]
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