Monthly Archives: April 2009

Garden Poetry

My garden will never make me famous I’m a horticultural ignoramous. Ogden Nash (1902 – 71)

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Lazy Lawn Care

Well, for us the lazy part may have to wait until next year.  You see, we got so busy in the fall that we didn’t over seed with winter rye grass and now we have weeds popping up everywhere.  But here is the basic idea of lazy lawn care. Over seed with winter rye.  Of […]

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Here’s wishing everyone…

A Happy Easter

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Rose Geranium Italian Cream Cake

Rose Geranium Italian Cream Cake From  Along the Garden Path by Bill and Sylvia Varney This was the most wonderful birthday cake!  We made it with rose geranium and decorated it with rose petals from our garden.  Unfortunately, we will now have to learn how to make a gluten-free version. 4 large rose geranium leaves […]

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Oddhopper Opera by Kurt Cyrus (A book review by Samantha)

There’s a lot of rhyming words in this book.  For  example: “Calling all oddhoppers!  Aphids and bees. Crickets and dung beetles, earwigs and fleas!” I like the ants because of their funny little sayings.  I love the snail race. (Thank you Samantha!  And thank you Suzie and Elliot for introducing us to this book!)

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The Thrashing of Thrips

Every year I have a small problem with thrips.  It seems like they emerge a couple of weeks before their predators do. Thrips are those tiny little vampire gnat-like things that suck the blood out of your roses and make thier poor little heads droop.  You can’t see them without a magnifying glass, but you […]

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Belinda’s Dream Rose

This is the rose that began it all.  John and the kids gave it to me for Mother’s Day 2005.  He asked the lady at Lantana Gardens  nursery for a rose that would be easy, beautiful and smell wonderful.  She hit the mark on all accounts. The Belinda’s Dream is a shrub rose that was […]

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Garden Bones – A Story of Trees

It was a little overwhelming moving from a house with a lot of structure in the yard to a completely blank canvas. Well, OK.  It wasn’t completely blank.  In the back yard, there was a raised area inside of landscaping timbers but it was all grass.  There were also two Live Oak trees, but they […]

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Howard Garrett’s Sick Tree Treatment

Natural Organic Home Garden Health Howard Garrett Dirt Doctor – Sick Tree Treatment. Sick Tree Treatment Step 1: Stop Using High Nitrogen Fertilizers and Toxic Chemical Pesticides Toxic chemical pesticides kill beneficial nematodes, other helpful microbes, good insects, and also control the pest insects poorly.  Synthetic fertilizers are unbalanced, harsh, high in salt, often contaminated […]

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Over the Garden Gate

Don’t kiss over the garden gate. Love is blind….but the neighbor’s ain’t! – Author unknown

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