Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. – Luther Burbank Aren’t these ‘Annabelle’ Hydrangea blooms crazy gorgeous? The blooms have now officially changed from white to green and they are absolutely enormous. I’m holding three blooms here and couldn’t even get my iPhone camera […] Read more…
The Story of My Gardens | July
“Gardening is akin to writing stories.” – Eudora Welty I love this quote, no doubt because I am both a writer and a gardener. I’m not quite sure if my gardens tell stories, but perhaps if they did, they would say I love an overabundance of color (I’m not terribly matchy-matchy) and I enjoy trying new […] Read more…
Weekend Rundown | Baby Snuggles & Garden Update
How was your weekend? We celebrated the first official weekend of summer vacation (school ended last Thursday!) with our first official babysitting adventure with our niece, Miss Morgan. As you can see by the photos, we think it went extremely well and we all loved our snuggle time with this cute little bug. We were home the […] Read more…
My Gardens: Coming to Life.
Lady’s Mantle My gardens are coming to life, even as I continue to plant seeds and add flowers here and there. Spring is always slower to come in Minnesota, and this year, it felt like it took forever. Then today we recorded over 5 inches of rain in a 24-hour period – with more projected […] Read more…
Wordless Wednesday: I'm Ready for Gardening.
Frost possibility? In mid-May. Of course it’s Minnesota. Sigh. Well, Mother Nature, when you are ready to give us spring in more than one-day increments, I will be ready to plant my vegetable gardens and pot my flower pots and get my hands dirty in the soil. Hint, hint. Read more…
My Tomato Epiphany (and Tomato-Chive-Parmesan Pasta Salad).
By tomato lover standards (if there are such standards), my garden is paltry. I hear tales of people who plant 30, 40 even 50 plants and then spend fall weekends happily canning away. (Or at least they claim they love to can – you know, 36 quarts of this, that and the other thing.) Me? […] Read more…
The Glory of the Late Summer Garden.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. – Alfred Austin My perennial flowers are loving this late summer heat wave, as long as I give them a drink of water (or two) […] Read more…
A Little Hydrangea Heaven.
Where is August going? I feel the tick-tock of the back-to-school clock already … and I haven’t even gotten to the Minnesota State Fair yet. (The State Fair, by the way, is a pretty big deal for my office – I will promise to blog a bit about all the ways we (wait for it […] Read more…