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| March 14, 2010 | | 1:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
 "Give peas a chance" panels are in the works Join us Sunday March 14th at Heather’s purple cottage to help in our first large group session. If you can’t make it this Sunday, stay tuned for addition sessions. Making the mural is a big project that will take many sessions to make. In order to get our groove going we did a few sessions with our small group of professional artists who have started doing the pea panels.
What to bring: eye protection, gloves, a hammer and mosaic tools if you have them
Date: Sunday March 14th
Time: 1:00pm to 4:00ish
Where: 1209 3rd St North, Safety Harbor
RSVP- to Siobhan at snehin@mac.com
Our long-time-coming Tarpon Mural project is a go!
The Why and the How
We have been involved in a planning process to do a mural in Tarpon Springs for two and half years. Part of the time was spent raising funds many through our garden tour last year and the other time was finding a location. The original location of the mural was in a vacant lot on Tarpon Avenue.
Doing a group project is a great way to bond with others and learn new skills. We love doing collaborative projects, party due to the fact that evolution is so fascinating. From conception to final product, a lot changes along the journey.To find out how this is all going to come together you’ll have to join us. Continue reading Our Tarpon Springs mosaic mural project is a go!
February in Florida- It’s time to add veggies and color to your garden
The freeze this year has left many of our Florida gardens looking drab and depressing. It was best to wait out all of January to plant anything this year, due to our unusually cold days and nights. But now that we are into February, you can start dressing up your lackluster landscape by adding annuals and ornamental veggies.
One of the most important factors in the Florida garden is timing. When I moved to Florida from Buffalo years ago, I put in annuals three months late. I learned quickly, that by the end of May most annuals will start getting heat stress. So, start now and for the next three months you can enjoy a profusion of color, which will help take your mind off your damaged plants. Continue reading February: add veggies and color
Reviving your frozen frazzled yard: a five-step program
If you are on the verge of trimming dead branches, you will be committing foliage-cide!. Resist, resist!
Trimming prematurely can cause even more damage!
I am receiving lots of calls and emails from stressed out gardeners who are wondering what to do and what NOT to do. Looking at dead foliage is really depressing. The good news is there is a way to recovery, just follow the Garden Fairy Five Step Recovery Program.
Continue reading Reviving your frozen frazzled yard
Give your cold-sensitive palms the “Blanket Treatment”.
If you’ve planted new or cold sensitive palms in your garden, you will need to take some protective measures once the thermometer hovers just above freezing or goes below freezing. The first two years in a palm’s life in the ground are especially critical. Think about your palm tree as a new baby, and like babies, palms need cold weather protection.
Here are some Garden Fairy factoids for Floridians and tips for protecting your palms. Continue reading Protecting Palms from Plummeting Temps
“It’s freezin!” This is the number one topic in Florida the first week of January. One has to laugh because lots of Floridians are transplanted northerners. I have heard many garden owners complain about covering their plants. Depending on where you escaped from, covering your plants for a few nights is nothing compared to shoveling snow for six months.
 Siobhan's veggies and annuals that need protection Here are some Garden Fairy tips for protecting your plants from Florida’s once-in-a-while deep freezes.
Continue reading Tips to protect your plants, as Florida enters the deep freeze
 Siobhan and Lisa love a parade You can imagine how much work it is to decorate a golf cart right around xmas– which is what a flockette of GFairies did last year for the Tarpon Springs xmas pararde. This year we thought let’s decorate dogs. Surely, this would be a simpler project. So… we all agreed, let’s add dogs dressed as fairies.
Simple ehh! Haaaa– maybe the making the doggy costume part. But the parading around with keyed up dogs- yikes. They sit when you want to go and you can fill in the rest. It was worse than trying to take a child on a walk, when all they want to do is sit around and cram all the candy canes on the tree in their mouth.
Continue reading Parading around with pets
 For the fifth year in a row, the Garden Fairies have made the holidays a bit nicer for the troubled adolescent girls who live at the Brookwood Home in St. Pete FL. We always come up with colorful and creative gifts for the girls as Brookwood– fitting with our credo, to beautify the world. This year we decorated 50 presents– makeup bags and filled with an assortment of teen pleasing makeup. Continue reading Adding color to troubled teens lives over the holidays
As bad a year as it was for the economy, that’s how good a year it was for lemons at my house. Imagine 600 lemons coming ripe at the same time and then one day, a major lemon tree catastrophe. The top of our big lemon tree snapped in half.
We had to remove 2/3 of the top and in the process, we found ourselves with maybe 300 extra-large lemons on our driveway. What do you do with a large load of lemons?
I gave some to the neighbors, friends and family. I travel around with bags of lemons looking for lemon lovers. Gave some to the mailman, the garbage man and the FedEx lady. Basically, I would say, ”like lemons?” to anyone I came in contact with.
But alas, all my attempts to lighten my lemon load were not enough.
Continue reading Lemon Dilemma
One of the great things about being a Garden Fairy is we inspire each other to try new things. I gave up on growing veggies in Florida awhile ago, but seeing Barbara’s veggies has reinvigorating an old passion of mine. Barbara, Sue and I all grew vegetables up north and have fond memories of such pursuits. Growing veggies in Florida is more of a challenge, but can be done. I will do a blog on “How to grow veggies successfully in Florida” at a later date.
If you read gardening publications, there is a trend to to plant veggies in your front yard. If done right you can add some ornamental value to your front garden. Barbara is growing three types of veggies that have ornamental appeal in her front yard (broccoli, Chinese cabbage and just plain cabbage). The rest of her mini farm is in the backyard, stuff that is not as neat in appearance. Tomatoes for instance, Barbara feels should always be in the back yard.
Continue reading Barbara’s Bodacious Broccoli n’ Sue’s Curvy Cabbage
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