Every week, I enjoy seeing who happens to visit me in the garden. To be precise, feathered visitors. Some of you may know that I also write a blog for Birds & Blooms magazine and as a result, I am always on the lookout for interesting and sometimes unusual birds. But, often it is my […]
Do I have your attention? What kind of embarrassing thing do I have to admit too? Well, I could think of countless things: I am a bit clumsy I am a very picky eater I like to grow vegetables more then I like to eat them 😉 AND I am not a perfect gardener There, […]
Unfortunately, there are times when unwelcome visitors make a visit to any garden. Even mine…. Can you see my unwelcome visitors on my Lantana leaves? Well, if you guessed that I have whiteflies, you would be right. Whiteflies absolutely love Lantana. Now, I also love Lantana and have quite a bit of it growing and […]
Okay, after many of you read this, you will come to the conclusion that I am a bit strange when it comes to gardening. A few days ago, I was checking on my vegetable garden. Specifically, I was checking to see if my corn was ready to harvest. My corn was ready to harvest The […]
I hope you are all having a great week. I am so looking forward to the holiday weekend, are you? This Saturday, we will be celebrating my son, Kai’s, 9th birthday. I have to make a 3-layer icebox cake, which he is looking forward to. To be honest, life has been rather crazy this week… […]
Do you have a hummingbird feeder? I have two. One is the popular plastic variety, above, and the other is a beautiful glass one that my sister-in-law gave me for my birthday. However, when I first opened the glass feeder, I couldn’t find the stopper and feeding tube. So, I went online and ordered a […]
It seems just like I was creating a bouquet for the month of April. Where has the time gone? My garden is in full bloom, but all I seem to see when I look outside is some plants in need of a bit of pruning 😉 I have had some exciting events occur in my […]
In my last post, I showed you how my vegetable garden had gone crazy growing a multitude of different vegetables. I had the remainder of my winter vegetables ready to harvest as well as pull out. So over the weekend, I put my kids to work helping me in the garden. First off, I had […]
Well, it’s official….my vegetable garden has gone crazy. When I left for my trip to the Midwest at the end of April, it was nice and somewhat neat. My winter lettuce, spinach, green onions and garlic were doing well and my newly planted corn, cucumbers, gourds, tomatoes and sunflowers were coming up nicely. I came […]
Low Desert Gardens, Beavertail Prickly Pear and Globe Mallow Right now, I am sitting here in front of my computer, trying to think of an interesting and helpful subject for this post, which will be published tomorrow (Saturday). Unlike other times when I sit down to write, I don’t have much time to spend on […]
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