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Garden fairies here!
Oh my, let us first dust off this blog and wipe away the cobwebs because Carol is lazy and hasn’t posted one single thing since her last post on the 15th of November, and now it is the 2nd of December, and here we are!
We are garden fairies, and we are beside ourselves and up...
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for November 2025.
If I didn’t have the Christmas roses, Helleborus niger, blooming now, this would be a pretty short post.
But who am I ...
Garden fairies here!
We are garden fairies, and to say that we were displeased by the early snowfall this week would be a correct statement!
But we were not distressed about it because we had been working very hard to get Carol to get things put away since it was already November, and that is so...
Once upon a time, I bought a scented geranium, potted it up, and put it outside with other geraniums in a little theater set up. (Pelargoniums, actually, but you know what flower I’m talking about.)
That little scented geranium was near the bottom of the theater, and quite frankly, wasn’t doing that well.</...
The other day, I bought a copy of The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen.
Of course, my thoughts turned to gardening, and gardening books in particular. Which gardening books have changed m...
