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Revamp: Succulent Garden Spot (Part 1)
I purchased this plant at the Farmer’s Market last fall, intentionally picking out one with a lot of babies. I’m told the babies are referred to as “chicks”. I was thinking they would just mound and grow bigger, but they decided they wanted to explore. I decided they should go explore outside. I really hope they are hardy in zone 7b. “Chicks” ready to leave the nest There is one spot at my front steps that always gets the shaft.…
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Discovery: New Love
Once upon a time, there was a girl that loved Fall. She loved everything about it – the curling of colorful leaves, the nervousness that came with the return of school, the backpacking and car camping trips, and the food… oh, the food on these camping trips! Doughboys, cobbler, pancakes on the griddle! One lovely April day, that girl, a good bit older, spent sunrise to sunset in her back yard playing with her own kids and knew that she…
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Too much waiting, not enough living.
Sometimes you have to stop looking for permission from everyone else to pursue your passions. If you wait for divine inspiration, you may spend your whole life waiting. When I started grad school, I read an article talking about the fear of starting. Some students dove right in, making corrections and alterations to the plan as they went, some stood at the edge of the pool assessing every ripple in the water before jumping in. Guess which I was. If you…
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I Won a Wally One!
Talk about a tongue-twister of a title. A couple weeks ago, I discovered a “Vertical Gardening Cyber Book Party”. Perhaps Ricky Nelson’s “I Went to a Garden Party” just entered your brain.. it did mine. Well don’t you know I visited every single blog hosting giveaways as a promotion for launch of the new book Garden Up!: Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces by Susan Morrison and Rebecca Sweet. Unlike a certain member of the Sheen family, I…
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A New Bench
I found this cute little bench while grocery shopping at my local Kroger. It is the perfect height for the boys, and after helping me put it together, the Man-child proclaimed that it was his bench and I could have the one we up-cycled from the old hot box. Thanks buddy! Our neighbor came over to admire the bench and the fence that is still in the works. Our neighbors are the best neighbors out there. They regularly have conversations…
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Prepared for Frost
The plants were all covered with tarps in their beds, while visions of summer danced in their heads. Alway, always I plant too early. I tell people to wait for that last frost date and I get antsy and plant ahead of schedule. There is a frost advisory for tonight, and I’m crossing my fingers that my pepper plants stay happy and warm in their new mulch under the tarp and don’t end up with stunted growth later in the…
