May is usually a month of abundant blooms in the garden, but this year only a few things are blooming. The few tulips that survived the deer, have gone over, and the cold rainy weather has slowed everything else to a crawl. While everything is lush and green, blooms are few and far between. But what I do like about…
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This week’s bouquet is simple and ever so sweet smelling. Being rushed for time, and not much in bloom at the minute, I took the easy route and made a bouquet from all the Lily of the Valley plants in my yard. I have never used them for a bouquet before and never looked closely at their sweet faces. Actually,…
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When I was a child, yellow was my favorite color. As an adult, it has to be green. Four rooms in my home are green, and my porch. I’ve come to think of green as a neutral, since it plays so well with every color. Nature provides every shade imaginable and in every shape and size. After a drab, brown,…
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The lilacs are glorious this year. My row of lilacs were about 4-foot tall plants when I put them in three years ago, and since that time, some of them have reached 8-9 feet tall with the largest blooms I’ve ever seen. I planted 11 lilac bushes and there were 2 older bushes in this row along the side of my…
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Does your porch become a “catch-all” during the winter? A place where everything lands, to be “put away another day”? Well, that’s my screened-in porch from November to April. Yesterday, the sun was shining into the porch in such a beautiful way, that I wanted to sit and relax there, but it was such a mess, and so dirty from…
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