Years ago at Garden Expo I heard it was the decade of the hydrangea. I was overjoyed because I love hydrangeas of every kind, both in my gardens and my clients’ gardens, as well as in the bouquets I create every week for my flower share. I couldn’t imagine I would ever meet its equal,… Continue reading Let’s talk Viburnum
February To-Do List 1. Make rosemary cookies 2. Go to Garden Expo 3. Vacuum indoor houseplants with garage vac 4. Write hits and misses from 2016 for school garden and personal garden 5. Write more blog posts to share ideas with as many peeps as possible 6. Scour gardening catalogs and magazines–favorites: Jung’s, Seed Savers,… Continue reading February 2017 To-Do
The first year I attended Garden Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, I felt like I’d struck gold. There were so many classes offered by talented, passionate gardeners. It was like all of the books I had read and gardening shows I had watched came alive all in one place for three days. I only wished I… Continue reading Garden Expo
I love all aspects of my job: the creating, designing, mulching, planting, weeding, and garden coaching. But what I love most is planting seeds, literally and figuratively. Obviously, I love to create gardens. But I also love to help create gardeners, whether it’s a kid in the school garden or a client. And I love my… Continue reading Planting Gardeners
Sometimes I think I should rename my blog Hot-Mess Melissa. That’s how my garden seemed at the end of the 2015 season, with the creeping Charlie creeping in everywhere and the choking-vine weed choking everything. But here is January, yielding a clean slate. Just as I have resolved to stop complaining and exercise five days… Continue reading Hot-Mess Melissa
Week One Continue to care for indoor houseplants by cleaning the dead leaves and ice-cube watering. Week Two Taxes, taxes, taxes. Continue indoor projects like cleaning the basement and painting upstairs hallway and bathroom so I can garden 24/7 as soon as the snow melts. Week Three Check on stored bulbs such as dinner-plate dahlias and consider… Continue reading Getting Busy in March
So, what’s a gardener who gardens for her profession, passion and lifeline to do when she discovers she has a pretty severe allergy to bees? A. Have a panic attack, or several? B. Have a nervous breakdown? C. Have a midlife crisis? D. Become a total shut-in, an agoraphobic? E. Never go outside again? F.… Continue reading Bringing the George Costanza Fanny Pack Back from the ’90s
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