Subject: The Miracles Around Us

The Miracles Around Us

April 18th, 2021 at 4:14 pm EST

HAPPY SPRING GREETINGS! Are you cursing the weeds or putting them to good use?  If you’ve been receiving these emails for awhile now, you’ll know that we’re big on growing our own food, AND on making the most use of the plants all around us i ...

Hummers; Spiraea; Planting

April 11th, 2021 at 6:43 pm EST

GREETINGS, GARDENER! LeAura’s 86 y/o Mom, who lives next door to us, called yesterday to ask what the ratio is again for sugar to water for hummingbird food. When we shared this on Facebook, one lady laughed and said she had just called her mother ...

Weeds With Purple Flowers

April 4th, 2021 at 7:42 pm EST

GREETINGS GARDENER! So grateful for a lovely spring weekend. We gardened and hiked and made new beds, planted seeds and plants... on and on. The spring frenzy is on! WEEDS!We have lots of weeds with purple flowers in our yard and woods. Some gardene ...

Pollinator Flowers for Bees + Garden Snippets

March 28th, 2021 at 7:14 pm EST

[Late Sunday] Greetings! Whew! Feeling a bit like the late rabbit in Alice in Wonderland! 😜 We’ve been running to catch up all weekend after little sleep the past two nights. We’ve had a series of thunderstorms which always send our canine com ...

SPRING SHOOTS & CHIVES!

March 21st, 2021 at 3:04 pm EST

SPRING GREETINGS, GARDENER!! Well, yesterday was officially the first day of spring. If you’re in a cold region still under snow. Sorry. We really feel for you. 🥶 We’d have to either move south or have big greenhouses if we were in a colder cl ...

Hydrangeas

March 14th, 2021 at 3:21 pm EST

SPRING SUNDAY GREETINGS, GARDENER! SPRING HAS SPRUNG (in NC 7a) AND SO HAS THE TO-DO LIST!Spring is clearly afoot here, and with that, tons of things to do. Our weekend to-do list included pruning hydrangeas. PRUNING HYDRANGEASSo if you need help wit ...

Sweet Box & Plantago

March 7th, 2021 at 3:55 pm EST

Greetings! WOW! Stepped outside on the last day of February to be hit by the sweetest smell of early spring: The FIRST FRAGRANCE OF PRE-SPRING... the surprisingly, intensely sweet smelling sweet box plant. The flower is so tiny and barely visible, yo ...

Chives vs. Scallions + Gratitude from TX

February 21st, 2021 at 2:21 pm EST

Sunday Greetings, Gardener! The other day we posted a positive and popular meme by John Steinbeck, (it's at the end of this article). And... one poster told us to go to hell . Someone said we should kick them off the page, but instead, we replied tha ...

Edible Hedges & Loss of Power

February 14th, 2021 at 10:31 am EST

GOOD MORNING! We’re without power (since around 9:45 PM Saturday) and internet (since mid morning Saturday), in the Piedmont of NC after freezing rain iced trees and lines. Thanks to a phone hotspot and a few phone chargers, we have enough juice to ...

Rain Gutter Garden Ideas

February 7th, 2021 at 11:01 am EST

GREETINGS, GARDENER! Have you, in your longing for spring, ever started plants too soon? Winter is a great time for projects, especially those that help launch you into spring growing! This week we’re enjoying trying an idea to solve our growing sp ...