Long-time readers of my blog know that I have never shied away from being honest about the poor upkeep of my garden. Sometimes I find beauty in the weeds, and sometimes they depress me, but I’ve never pretended they didn’t exist. I agree with Colleen that fear of “not doing it right,” or “not being […]
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
July 14th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 4 Comments
Categories: Design
Keywords: birthday garden · garden design · garden maintenance · July · mallow · north side · purple and gold · weeding
Passalong, heirloom, and cottage garden plants
June 3rd, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 11 Comments
I suppose there exists, somewhere on this planet, an ornamental gardener who has never grown a plant that they had been given from someone else’s garden, but it is hard for me to imagine it. Before I even knew myself to be a gardener, when I was just a kid, I tagged along behind the […]
Categories: Flowers on the Brain
Keywords: colchicums · cottage gardening · daffodils · easy plants · garden bloggers book club · heirloom plants · lilacs · mallow · malva · narcissus · passalong plants
Mud Season is here
March 1st, 2004 by Kathy Purdy · Comments Off
I can tell by the dirty footprints leading from the front door to the bathroom. All the compacted snow is off our driveway, which used to be a gravel driveway but is now a dirt driveway, due to all the snow shoveling over the years, which throws both snow and gravel onto the lawn. You […]
Categories: Weather
Keywords: mallow · malva · mud season · snow · weather
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