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Blooming Thursday: Kinder + Garden
According to Merriam-Webster, bloom can mean “to produce or yield flowers.” It also means “to mature into achievement of one’s potential.” Last night my soon-to-be 12 year-old asked if I liked HTML....
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Blooming Thursday: Dwarfed by the Cosmos
I’d like to give a shout-out to the bird, or perhaps it was the wind, for planting the cosmos. These pink and yellow beauties are my new garden darling, the flower I didn’t know I loved. They were...
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Blooming Thursday: Blushing Pinks
Growing up a redhead my mom never let me wear pink. A ginger herself, she advised that pink was not our color. She was right of course, but when you’re told not to wear something, you can think of...
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Floral Friday
Photographer Tamara Pruessner curates a feature on Google+ called Floral Friday. Fellow photographers and nature lovers post individual photos with the tag #FloralFriday, and as each one posts, they...
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Stairway to Heaven: The Ants Go Marching One by One
Ants love sugar. They’re also incredibly resourceful. The mystery, however, is how they knew that a single Cosmo grew to just the right height this week, allowing them direct access to the heavenly...
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Looking up at the Cosmos
Looking up at the cosmos this evening was a treat. I fell in love this summer with these magnificent flowers. Like any new love, I’ve enjoyed the novelty and discovery of uncharted territory....
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Blooming Thursday: Seeds for the Holidays
The idea came to me in late July. I started collecting Cosmo seeds to give as gifts for the holidays. This prolific annual grew in abundance throughout the summer. It was such a pleasure watching...
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A Winning Combination
Earlier this year, I dug out a corner of the lawn and replaced it with a variety of flower seeds. The corner faces my kitchen window and sits at the curb, allowing maximum viewing enjoyment. I started...
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Gardening, Labor and a Societal Ban on Wearing White
When I flipped my Old Farmer’s Almanac wall calendar to September, it greeted me with this quote: Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job. – George Bernard Shaw It certainly is a labor of love,...
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A Garden Dressed in White
“The first of all single colors is white … We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be seen; yellow for the earth; green for water; blue for air; red for...
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