Heuchera - Easy to grow and So lovely in the Garden08.09.07

Don’t you just love the look of Heuchera leaves?
Heuchera Purple Palace leaves

They’re so colorful. I have heuchera’s growing in shady places in my garden, even below other plants that are in otherwise sunny areas. For example I’ve got coral heuchera growing underneath our ornate Japanese maple tree. The branches drop down almost to [...]



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Balloons in the garden08.08.07

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The Balloon flower is a pretty flower once it becomes established in your garden. I have three of this bluish purple kind, as well as two white balloon flower plants and one pink balloon flower plant. Yes, I love balloon flowers. Can you tell?

In the lower right corner I think that [...]



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My neighbor has become a pest06.19.07

I think my elderly neighbor Sofie is getting worse in her stalking ways.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised to find a camera in my home that she’s placed there to watch me.

I mean, she knows every time I step outside my door - whether I go out the front of the back she’s there, seemingly waiting [...]



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Pelargonium12.10.06

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The pelargonium is often mistaken for, and sometimes even mislabeled in home centers as a geranium. It’s related but it most definitely is not a geranium. I grow these flowers in the summer - putting them in my hanging baskets, pots, and window boxes. The flowers come in many different colours and they bloom on [...]



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