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…
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Tips to protect your plants, as Florida enters the deep freeze
“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…
Parading around with pets
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,…
Adding color to troubled teens lives over the holidays
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,…
Lemon Dilemma
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.…
Garden Fairies Web Log arrives for 2010
Welcome to the magical world of The Garden Fairies. The Garden Fairies are a co-op of creative gardeners and artists in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. …a garden club that digs doing it! We go way beyond planting perennials and petunias…we teach each other how to make magical Florida gardens.…