Buffalo’s Garden Walk fever has spread to 17 other locales in Western New York. I give a neon-glowing-green thumbs-up to anyone involved in garden walks and tours; hosts, volunteers and organizers. I know how much work a garden walk or tour takes, having done two garden tours with The Garden…
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Shuffle Off To Garden Walk Buffalo
Buffalo, you might be saying, “what about snow?”. Well in fact, snow makes a great cover for gardens. When the weather breaks in Buffalo the city starts to bloom up a storm. If you are lucky enough the make it to Buffalo the last weekend of July you will see…
The Not-so-accidental Garden Tourist
My husband knows the routine; if we go out of town, horticultural areas of interest must be included in our itinerary. I am a plant nut and he’s a car enthusiast, so trips are researched with our two passions in mind. We have had ample opportunities to see lots of…
Growing Hollyhocks and Roses in Florida?
Long considered northern mainstays, hollyhocks and roses can bring color to your freeze-ravaged, early-spring Florida garden.
Our Tarpon Springs mosaic mural project is a go!
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 three years. Part of the time was spent raising funds many through our garden tour last year and the other time…
February: add veggies and color
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.…
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.…