Gardening
Twigs from my garden
In previous columns, I've written about moonlit gardens - gardens planted with all white or silver plants that can literally "glow in the dark." Recently, I wrote about "mellow yellow" flowers. I recall reading many years ago that an all-white garden...
Twigs from my garden
"There are fairies at the bottom of our garden! It's not so very, very far away; You pass the gardener's shed and you just keep straight ahead - I do so hope they've really come to stay." Rose Fyleman's sweet poem about fairies was included in my...
Twigs from my garden
Not since the Beatles sang about living in a yellow submarine or Donovan crooned, "I'm just wild about Saffron ... " has the color yellow been so hot! At least in the garden and nursery scene. In case you doubt me, let me titillate your tendrils. (By...
Twigs from my garden
Last year, spring waddled through the big metal doors at Lima's Home Depot on two splayed feet in the form of a fuzzy duckling. A mother mallard had laid her eggs on some bags of mulch at the back of the store and then disappeared. All that was left of...
Twigs from my garden
Cream and yellow daffodils, golden boughs of forsythia, pink and white magnolias, and fuchsia redbuds have put on an especially spectacular and long-lasting spring show in my yard this year. Then arrived phalanxes of outstanding tulips and lavender creeping...
Twigs from my garden
Allow me to step back a week in time to share with you my Earth Day 2008. I cannot think of a better way to celebrate the day than exactly as I did. My day began early at the regional spring meeting of Ohio Association of Garden Clubs from Allen, Auglaize,...
Twigs from my garden
This week I suggest a theme garden — a small garden, maybe in a secluded area of your yard, dedicated to a single theme that interests you. Here are a just a few of many ideas you may want to consider.You might plant a pizza garden with vegetables...
Twigs from my garden
This column is being interrupted for an important public announcement (actually a trivial, personal message) about Earth Day 2008. I question how we have fared since Earth Day’s first celebration on April 22, 1970.That first year my 5-year old daughter...
Twigs from my garden
My last column was about how a rain garden planted in a natural or manmade gully, depression, swale, or at the bottom of a slope — wherever water tends to collect after heavy rain — can benefit a residential yard and, on a much larger scale,...
Twigs from my garden
Whatever the season, whatever the weather, gardeners love to plan their next gardens. What better time to plan a garden than now, when the soil hasn’t warmed enough to dig and plant and while the danger of frost is still imminent? For the next few...
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