Growing Stock Flowers in my Cottage Garden
Growing Stock Flowers in my Cottage Garden. July 10, 2024. The dawn hour reveals the cool pink of the freshly blooming Stock flowers. The flower-clustered head of the Stock flower…
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Growing Cabbage Roses in my Cottage Garden
“I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island Growing Cabbage Roses in…
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Peony-like Tulips in my Cottage Garden
Peony-like Tulips. April 4, 2024. This year I have finally made friends with the tulip. Tulips have never been on my choice flower list for the garden as quite frankly,…
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Make an Ivy Wreath
Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o’er ruins old! The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens Make an Ivy Wreath. January 19, 2024. The ivy in the…
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Rose Care in the Fall at Hidden Bluff
It is time to put the roses to bed. Anna Marie Tang Rose Care in the Fall at Hidden Bluff. November 13, 2023. It is time to tuck the little…
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Making Seed Packets
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” Ancient proverb Making Seed Packets. October, 11, 2023. Things are quickly dying as the days get darker….
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Homemade Weed Killer
Homemade Weed Killer, July 11, 2023. Every time I go out to the garden these days, I feel positive that someone has snuck into our yard in the dead of…
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Rose Care in the Growing Season
Rose Care in the Growing Season. June 27, 2023. My favorite part of the day during the warm season is walking through the garden. This daily ritual is when I…
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The Fairy Rose
Among the meadows of the countryside, from city noise and tumult far away…There is a spot which lovingly I prize, for there a fair and sweet old-fashioned country garden lies….
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English Bluebells in the Cottage Garden
The Bluebell is the sweetest flowerThat waves in summer air:Its blossoms have the mightiest powerTo soothe my spirit’s care. Emily Bronte English Bluebells in the Cottage Garden, May 16, 2023….
