Old Things For The Garden

Thirty plus years of gardening, as good as I have accumulated knowledge of plants in this region (Salem Massachusetts), I…

Mother’s Day Ritual

It’s been a tradition on Mother’s Day, that I wake up really early and go spend a quiet time in…

Every heart holds a fairyland, wrapped in flowers, sweet-ladened air, where bees do their dance amongst forget-me-nots and lilies-of-the valley.…

Into the wooden gate where boughs of roses dip, sweet-perfumed air crowned by an enchanted tree. Herein lies our own…

From dusk to dawn,Fairies dance and toilTheir marks left on the lawn,As plants poke from the soil. It’s still cold…

Purple crocuses lined the trail,Pretty in thousands as they sprang,Fairies dance and told their tale,Spring has come, so they sang.…

How lucky am I, as a gardener, to have seen some of the famous gardens in the world and stumble…

Today is all about planning the garden, the ‘Martha Stewart Knows Best’ show which I stumble upon while searching for…

Pretty soon the ground will thaw and sleepy green tips of plants will be poking out to meet the sun.…

Painted skies at the end of the day as the sun settles over the horizon. Different strokes and different shades…

I look out the window, and what do I see? The moon who is looking back at me. ~Belle The…

The African Violet, genus Saintpaulia, originally came from the eastern tropical Africa, in Tanzania and Kenya. I love them especially…

God wakes us up with a beautiful sunrise to remind us that all is not lost. ~Belle