Smiles peeps, Wanted to share once again with Fishtail Cottage "Cottage Garden Party". I'm sure you tired of me saying how much I miss my garden this year, the heat and drought was unforgiving, and even though it's cooled off, much is to late to recover. So let me share with you some of my [...]
Smiles peeps, We are finally enjoying some beautiful, sunny cooler days, My garden is smaller, so I use a lot of vertical gardening, vines. Today I want to share with you one of my most favorites. Porcelain Berry Vine - it was originally grown around the 1870's as a bedding plant (originally from China). It [...]
Smiles peeps, The weather has been so beautiful here, and I've been outside every chance I can. We had some badly needed rain lately, and there's only 1 plant in my garden that hasn't been happy about it is.. my Fairy Garden - I've had to keep it tilted to let the water run out! [...]
Smiles peeps, I was standing at one of my kitchen window this morning thinking about sharing my garden with Fishtail Cottage Garden party. When it hit me, show my garden outside my kitchen window! Sometimes creative moments like this just happen :-}. There are 5 windows in my kitchen and the views I'm sharing are [...]
Smiles Peeps, Today is Fishtail Cottage Garden Party! I look forward to joining Tracie's party each week.. But it's not been a good year to have a garden in Illinois...heat and drought, more heat and more drought has left my garden with few pretties to look at. I've actually felt sad this year knowing she [...]
Smile Peeps! Last night we finally got some badly needed rain. It poured and poured and the rainfall level reached almost an 1"! I felt like a little girl again letting the rain fall all over me and stomping in the rain! My garden has suffered over the last two months. But there are a [...]
Smiles to you friends, We are in one of the worst droughts here in Illinois. Our winter was abnormally warm, and very little snow. Temps have been high in the 90's and into the 100° At this point I am watering my garden JUST to keep everything alive. What are some things we can do [...]
Smiles my friends, It's been a hectic week... but yesterday morning I headed out to our local Farmer's Market (5 blocks away) for some fresh veggies - to my delight they were also having a plant clearance sale. All they had left where some Dianthus and six Hens and Chicks, 25¢ each. I have several [...]
Smiles Everyone, It's been hot, hot, hot here - today is expected to be 105°, and no rain in site. I've been watering, watering my garden, but with temps like these my main focus is just keeping everything alive. But I wanted to have something to share with Fishtail Cottage Floral Thursday! Basically what I [...]
Smiles Everyone, We, in Illinois, are experiencing above average temperatures and below-average rainfall. Tomorrow we could be hitting 100°s with little rain in sight!!! With a weather forecast like this I start preparing my garden and hubs lawn for what is to come. When I took the Illinois Master Gardener training program we learned that [...]
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