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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Growing Lettuce

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One of the vegetables I've had the most success in growing is lettuce. This is an Asian baby leaf mesclun salad mix from Renee's...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Baby plants

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After preparing the stock pond beds this spring, I planted my first seeds and starter plants. In one bed, I planted cucumbers and beans. Th...
Monday, August 22, 2011

My new book is out

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Hello to all of you who have stuck with me through this looong dry spell. I am grateful you didn't dump me from the blogs you follow. TH...
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Vegetable garden

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For the next few posts, I will share my first spring garden project earlier this year. It was quite an undertaking. We decided the best ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Surprise! She's baacck!

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Hey, everyone, I know, I know. Where the heck have I been? One word: Busy. About 9 months ago, I started working on my second book. This one...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

St. Stephen's Green

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If ever you are in Dublin, Ieland, be sure to take a long walk through St. Stephen's Green. It's a lovely 22-acre park (the second...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Dublin flowers

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When I was in Europe this past spring, I was impressed with the use of flowers in landscaping and as art. In the Shelbourne Dublin at St. St...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

August birth flower - the gladilous

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Yes, I know I am a bit behind talking about the birth flower for August. You would think a month planted right in the middle of the hottest ...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Go Texas!

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Cool Fact of the Day When the grounds-keeping team that manages the grass field used for the World Cup in South Africa needed a fast-growing...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Mushrooms

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All the recent rain left a new theme garden on our lawn - mushrooms. These big white 'shrooms are so pale in the afternoon sun they seem...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Fertilizer 101

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As part of our volunteer work, Jefferson County Master Gardeners record brief radio spots on gardening. Here's one we did on Fertilizer ...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

Blessed rain

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It's raining! For the past two weeks, while my friends in Nederland, Port Arthur and Beaumont have been getting relief from the long per...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Summer garden meals

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It seems my recollections of shelling peas and my family’s recipe for cooking up a mess of purple hull peas was a hit (see comments below). ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Flowers in art

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If you enjoy seeing art that uses flowers as inspiration, check out the exhibit "Blooms: Floral Art in the Stark Collections" at t...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ladybug Vs spider

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Ladybugs and Dill

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I was excited to spot four or five ladybugs on my dill this morning. I'm not sure if that's good - because the ladybugs are feeding ...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Purple Hull Peas

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This past week, I sat down at the kitchen table to do something I haven't done in years. I shelled peas. I grew up with a grandmother wh...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Love Those Lizards!

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We've always been blessed with an abundance of lizards at our house. I've posted before about how their favorite place used to be on...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Spider in the house

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I'm not one of those people who scream and grab a broom when they see a spider. While I certainly don't want them crawling on me, wh...
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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Lotus and Bamboo Festival in Port Arthur

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It's Friday - Yeah! Treat yourself by taking in the 12th Annual Lotus and Bamboo Festival at Buu Mon Buddhist Temple,2701 Procter St in ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

June Birth Flower: the rose

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Ah, June - the month for weddings. How fitting that the birth flower for June is the rose. Roses are considered by many to be the most perfe...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Old-fashioned daylilies

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Gardening is a constant endeavor to find plants that are attractive, dependable and low-to-maintenance free. If ever a plant fit this descri...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Growing clematis

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When it comes to vines, I've had my share of learning experiences. Flowering vines are a beautiful addition to a garden, but care shoul...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Olive Barn is not closing

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Oops. When I said Olive Barn was closing, I was wrong. What I should have said is that Olive Barn's Outlet & Warehouse in Houston is...

Easy to use gardening tools

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For gardeners, the older you get, the more important it is to find the right tools. Gardening is physical labor. Digging, weeding, hoeing, p...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

What happens when you don't water

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It seems I picked one of the driest months around to be out of town. While I was gone from mid-April to mid-May, my sweet husband tried to w...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Tuscan mystery plant

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One of the many plants I saw during my three weeks in Europe that I'm not familiar with include this colorful succulent. The yellow, ora...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Grandma's Yellow Rose

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There's something about yellow roses. As a young woman, I fell in love with a beautiful climbing yellow rose that spilled along a neighb...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Trade-offs

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For the past four days, before hitting the gardening duties/pleasures, I've been getting up early and sitting on the deck to enjoy a few...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

So where have you been?

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I've been getting that question a lot lately. If you're a regular reader, you've no doubt noticed a looong absence of posts. The...
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