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December 2004
Choosing colors in the garden is as subjective and personal as the kind of music and art that appeals to you. It creates a mood - an irresistible garden harmony. For me, that choice is ....
November 2004
Tanya remembers her mother had gardens. Fall would find their pantry full with everything from canned cherries to ketchup. Mom’s pickles were a real favorite. Her dad liked the other kind of gardening--trees, shrubs, fences, islands, etc. Mom would .....
October 2004
Visiting Schramsberg Vineyards is like living in a mini series rivaling Lonesome Dove. It's true that the estate on Mount Diamond, to the southwest of Calistoga is a California Historical Landmark. But it's more than....
September 2004
Let me enthuse a bit about two of them. For years when people have walked onto my deck, their eyes are almost immediately drawn to the pot of Datura metel. They want to touch it and to seek out any ....
August 2004
I was in HORTI-Culture Shock! Gone was the clay that wouldn’t drain, the freeze-thaw springs that heaved up my perennials, the snow and ice that cracked the branches of favorite shrubs. Now I garden in....
July 2004
Mediterranean gardening presents a lot of challenges to gardeners raised in the tradition of summer-growing and winter-dormant plants. The lack of summer water, the low humidity, and the lack of ....
June 2004
If another male sets up a bower too close to an existing established male he will destroy the newcomers bower. When a female comes near the bower he will ....
May 2004
And let her get ready for dinner, to be celebrated in the company of my daughters. I am so excited writing this. I have never seen her face meeting the girls and Frédérick. The table would be ....
April 2004
Have you heard the fairies all among the limes, Singing little fairy tunes to little fairy rhymes? ....
March 2004
If you remember my post in which I whined unashamedly because my boxer, Claude, had eaten my clematis just before it burst into bloom, you are probably wondering how I can make intelligent comments about....
February 2004
What does one do, you may ask, when one is so in love with gardening it occupies all their leisure moments in the spring, summer and fall? When winter descends....
January 2004
About 20 years ago on her way to her parents’ farm she found a group by the roadside and dug them up and took them home. She still has plants that have re-seeded from .... |
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