Category: Black thumb or Green thumb

roses, before the deer would eat the blossoms like lollypops

I love these roses. I wish that mine would bloom. But i never thought of deer eating the blossom straight off the plant. We have rabbits eating our strawberries, our blueberries & our roses. Yesterday evening we saw a teenage fox cross the main road around our house. Maybe the fox will scare every animal…

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My new baby pink…

Hydrangea. I found this hydrangea at leaf & Petal, on the clearance shelf, this spring. The flowers were starting to brown & it had lost most of it’s leaves. Putting it into the ground was a bit of a gamble, but I figured it was spring & maybe it would know what to do on…

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I am not kidding

He held it just so. My son has a talent, in case he ever wants to run off & join the circus. I don’t like clowns though.

an AMAZING IDEA FOR BLOGGERS

did I get your attention? I learn a lot from bloggers about gardening, cutting fresh flowers, photography etc My desk is a pile of notes EVERYWHERE, post it, pads students have given me. When I write, part of me knows I will never find what I’m looking for & when my desk has not one…

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Living in rural Vermont

When my twin brother & I picked flowers for my mother, it was dandelions, red clover & Queen Ann’s Lace.  On the way back from the lake yesterday, I stopped & cut some flowers from the side of the road for me.