Aug 23, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – August 23 As a gardener, I do love a rainy day, or even several days in a row. Once I feel assured that the storm will deliver that ideal inch-plus over a 24 hour period, I love knowing that the entire landscape has been well watered for the...
Aug 22, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – August 22 In early July I wrote about cutting my ‘Rozanne’ Geraniums down to the ground. They weren’t performing as this perennial should, so I cut them down and planted young Profusion zinnias in the spaces that were created. Within three...
Aug 21, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – August 21 I am almost at the one-year anniversary of my promise to blog every day, and for the past three entries have written about what I’ve learned. Being in the gardens for the past 350-odd days, I’ve watched for what is meaningful and...
Aug 20, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From Poison Ivy Acres – August 20 Here are five more things I’ve learned from blogging every day, starting from my garden and looking into the rest of life: Some days you do a better job than others. Just as the garden might better tended one year and not...
Aug 19, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – August 19 OK, so we know that daily blogging isn’t a shortcut to weight loss and wealth. Ditto gardening. But there are parallels to be drawn between writing a daily blog, tending a garden and cultivating life. Here are a few things I’m...
Aug 18, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – August 18 Daily blogging and gardening are not foolproof weight-loss plans. You’ve no doubt seen those banner ads stating, “Massachusetts mom combines two common things and looses 50 pounds!” or some such claim. Trust me, those ordinary...
