Never underestimate the importance of the proper attire or equipment for the activities in which you choose to participate. Gloves can be just as crucial to a gardener as a parachute is to a skydiver. Safety first - not fourth.
Ordinarily you wouldn’t think of gardening gloves as a life-saving device, but when [...]

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I love rocks and stones in the garden and landscape, so when Gardening Gone Wild announced that the subject of May’s Garden Design Workshop was Stone in the Garden, I thought “what a happy coincidence” that my big spring project involves this very thing.
There were three reasons for adding a new garden with a dry [...]

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Obviously I haven’t been doing much posting lately. That’s because I’ve practically been living in the garden. If not my own garden, then someone else’s.
I’ve been quite busy doing spring garden cleaning for friends, relatives and clients. Here at home, work has begun on a new project in my side yard. [...]

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Over a month ago, on an early spring excursion to a garden center in Stratford, Mom bought this very cool metal planter. We thought the size would be perfect for a mini succulent garden that could be placed in the center of our patio table.

With the container purchased, all we needed were some succulents [...]

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The tulips are in full bloom here at 2GTU. Normally I would leave them in the garden, but it’s been a tad bit chilly the past two days, so last night I did the unthinkable and cut some so they could be enjoyed indoors.
Combined with the last of the daffodils and ivy [...]

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Visiting a garden center is not just about buying plants, trees and shrubs. It’s a place for gathering inspiration and seeing what’s new. Occasionally you spot something rather unique.

Tray after tray of annuals all lined up and ready for transplanting into larger cell packs. Mom hit the nail [...]

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We moved into our house in August 2006. We being my mom, dad, my son and myself. (Strange living situation I know, but that’s a story for another time.)

There were gardens here, but they had been pretty much ignored and the plants, shrubs and trees within those gardens had been [...]

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Mom and I have been doing multi-daily garden tours for the past two weeks. The rock garden is always the last stop on the tour.
This is a photo from last summer.

Friday, when we arrived at our final stop, we talked about how at this time of year, the rock garden resembles nothing [...]

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Last year the rabbits, squirrels, groundhogs, skunks, etc. had a blast chowing down, digging, transplanting, uprooting, and generally wreaking havoc in my gardens. This year I’m trying a new method of critter control. It’s not all that pretty, but so far it’s definitely been effective.
After planting my spring-blooming bulbs in the [...]

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I can’t tell you how excited I am to take part in my first ever garden bloggers bloom day! New life is springing up everywhere here and I’m only too happy to share it with the rest of the garden blogging world. Spring seems to have taken her own sweet time in arriving, [...]

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