Jan 26, 2014 | A Gardening Life, Garden Celebrations, Inspiration, Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, Report From An Opinionated Gardener, Report From PIA, You Can Grow That!
It has been my great pleasure to write here for five years, finding the ways that everything comes together in the garden. From thoughts about finding peace and meditation in the landscape to actual planting and plant advice posting here has been great fun. Sometimes,...
Jan 22, 2014 | A Gardening Life, Another Polular Misconception, As I See It, Bloggers Bloom Day, Bloggers You Can Grow That! Day, flummoxed on friday, Garden Celebrations, Garden Prayer, Garden Reports and Rejoicing, Garden Wedding, Grateful Gardeners Book Club, growing the spirit, Inspiration, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Perennial Maintenance, Pet Peeves, Plant Something!, plants I hate, plants I love, products I hate, products I love, Reasons To Grow Your Own Vegetables, Report From An Opinionated Gardener, Report From PIA, Things I Hate About Your Garden, Uncategorized, vegetables, What's for dinner?, wordless Wednesday, You Can Grow That!
Which would be, of course, you. The best of Whole Life Gardening is all the people who have followed this blog over the past few years. I am grateful to you beyond measure…and we’ve had fun, haven’t we? Now I’m planting new gardens: a link to...
Jan 4, 2014 | A Gardening Life, You Can Grow That!
Most people receive a dish garden as a gift. They are lovely when they arrive, because they’re usually made of three or more houseplants with contrasting foliage colors and textures. Most are in a low dish or basket, and are dressed up with moss to hid the soil....
Dec 28, 2013 | A Gardening Life
I’m pleased to announce that Coffee For Roses is now available for pre-orders on Amazon. It’s been such fun to write!
Dec 20, 2013 | A Gardening Life, plants I love
We love poinsettias at this time of year but a lesser known cool-weather plant is the hybrid Anemone. When my husband and I lived in New York’s mid-Hudson Valley, and he traveled up and down the Taconic Parkway frequently, he would stop at Battenfelds to pick up...
Dec 15, 2013 | A Gardening Life, As I See It, Life's Gardens, my gardens
Have you ever looked into the processes required to make olives edible? Fresh picked olives from the trees aren’t tasty. They are too bitter to eat as is. They contain the chemical compound Oleuropein, which is considered to have medicinal value because it’s an...
