Month: January 2020

Planning and Planting the Roses in My Garden planting pruning roses

Planning and Planting the Roses in My Garden

Planning and planting the roses in my garden has been more therapeutic than I could ever imagine While sitting with my father in the hospital during the last few weeks of his illness,  I spent hours quietly reading plant and seed catalogs while he slept. To put it mildly, those catalogs were my emotional life […]

A Skinny Space Before-and-After plus a Giveaway!

A Skinny Space Before-and-After plus a Giveaway!

As  I wrote about in my last post, time is a critical element in the garden. When planting a new garden, it’s understandable to want your plants to hurry up and GROW.  But, you just can’t rush it no matter how big of a plant specimen you buy, or how close you plant them together. Time is needed to let […]