It’s summer and I am ready for some fun. May was an incredibly busy month, as it usually is. School got out the first weekend of June. Usually, the release of our students means the beginning of summer, complete with a relaxation of schedules, sleeping in, and lazy days. This year has been anything but…
Summer evenings are time to enjoy sitting in your yard, surrounded by beautiful flowers, enjoying a glass of wine from a local vineyard. Who wouldn’t enjoy this? Cheers! What do you do to relax in the summer?
We have some large projects going on at our house right now. The siding is being replaced and a few of the gardens are being revamped, once the siding is finished on each section. My husband is handy, so the siding job is his. My job, fitting for a nature lover and master gardener, is…
via Daily Prompt: Survive Evergreen Garden Club. Founded September 2004 – Concluded May 2017. The Life of a Garden Club that is Evergreen, Twelve is the times the Butterfly Garden has been planted by students unseen The Monarch Way Station Sign is seen but not read, signaling a special precaution to those who truly care:…
For the last 18 years, we’ve had a home fruit orchard. I can’t call it a backyard orchard as it was at our first home in the mid-west, as our 30 trees are in our front yard at our current house. It’s been so long that we’ve had fruit-growing in our yard, I really almost…
via Daily Prompt: Roots At one time in my life, the word roots meant where you came from or what your ancestry happened to be. This was probably driven by that famous movie starring LaVar Burton as Kunte Kinte in Roots. Yes, I’m old enough to have watched that when it was released on television…
Our garden club theme this year is on Pollinators, of which we have covered Bats, Hummingbirds, and Bees. They are all fascinating, but as I prepared for the bee unit, I learned many things I didn’t know. There are solitary bees and social bees. The social bees are the ones everyone seems to talk about….
If you’ve read some of my previous posts, you know I am a gardener. I love plants, and love to teach children about different horticultural topics. This week, in addition to having garden club and planting 15 Amaryllis bulbs with my garden club students, I’ve had several personal gardening successes. My orchid is re-blooming. This…