Eileen has posted that Scotland (actually all of Europe) has no hummingbirds, but she loves to see them, even if at an arboretum or zoo. Here is a...
Welcome! I'm looking forward to seeing your photos, hearing what you are growing on your patio, and talking gardening with you.
I love your captions! You are the Caption Competition brainiac.
You were eating at a chic restaurant--not many restaurants could serve such fresh and gorgeous vegetables as you have at your table.
My deepest sympathies to anyone with an allergic reaction to onions! We plant white, yellow, and red onions each spring, and enjoy them (except...
Toni, you are lucky to have two groceries that cater to a select population. We have one grocery, and whether we go to our local small grocery, or...
A Passionflower start sent to me by a fantastic Stewie sent up two babies. I don't like to transplant in July, but they were in the direct path of...
Hello and welcome from Central Texas! Folks around here think they invented hot peppers, so you encounter them in almost everything. Please do...
Oh Stratsmom, you are so right! We went to a "big, grand" grocery shortly after it opened and a neighbor raved about it, especially the olive...
Barb, I just noticed the heading of this post "Waretrop's Summer Accident". I do hope this doesn't mean you plan to have accidents spring, fall,...
Once, when I was editor of a local paper, a "local" politician asked me what I did. I told him "more than you do." It took him a good few minutes...
I dead-headed roses this morning after cleaning the coops and communing with the hens and chicklets (which takes a while since I'm trying to...
Such a magnificent garden! I love the trellis--and for the price you paid it was a real bargain. In the fifth photo from the top there is a...
I nipped into our local grocery, usually a sane and sanitary place, and was immediately accosted by a lady offering "free tastes" of a nacho dip....
Oh Barb, you are one strong woman to suffer through all that and survive! I'm so sorry you had such a nasty accident, but am so glad you are still...
Hail is one of the most destructive things that hit a garden! I'm so glad your vegetables and flower plants were spared the damage! Like Toni,...
Parsley is a biennial, which means it grows one season, and then matures and sets seeds the next. You are in the next season. Cutting off the...
Wandering Jew (purple Jew) is easy to root. Take the stalk and 1) put the stalk in moist potting soil and keep the soil moist, but not wet--roots...
When we lived in town I was working in the vegetable garden which could be seen from the church parking lot. I tan easily, and darkly. A lady came...
Is there room for negotiation about that recliner couch? It really is too large for the room. How many people would be sitting at one time? See of...
