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Saving the Daffodils, Continuing the Story
We live in a transitional neighborhood where houses are regularly either being gutted and flipped or being torn down replaced with shiny new houses. There is a series of lots that have sat empty for the past year or two and in one of those lots, there was a beautiful clump of yellow daffodils. A year passed since I…
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JC Raulston Arboretum March Blossoms (Just Pics)
I visited the JC Raulston Arboretum on Saturday and Monday. So much was in bloom. Enjoy!
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Coastal Discovery Museum’s Butterfly Habitat Plants
Last summer we went to Coastal Discovery Museum on Hilton Head Island. The entire visit was great, but my favorite part was the butterfly habitat. I photo-documented every plant whose name was unfamiliar to me (or rather nearly all the plant tags) so that I could look them up later and determine if they could be added to my own…
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Picnic Table for the Hospitality Garden
For the past few years, I’ve been eyeing the picnic tables at Lowes. Then last year I heard an interview of Kristen Shell of The Turquoise Table who has built community and started a movement around hospitality in the simple action of putting a painted picnic table in her front yard. Last week when I went to Lowes to but…
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Week by Week Guide for Starting the Spring Garden
On this last day of January 2019 with a good portion of the country caught up in a polar vortex, I find myself longing for warmer weather and green vistas. Fortunately we have a mild weekend in the forecast. Mild weekends in February always get my garden gears going, but I have to remember that no matter what the groundhog…
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What Will You Be?
A friend was standing on the front stoop after picking up her son, and she thanked me for sharing my mid-life crisis post. She had been having similar conversations with friends, one of whom observed the ridiculousness of her own crisis when her high school junior was on the precipice life-defining choices. It struck me that I’ve never felt like…
