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Plant Lust: Lotus jacobaeus

As if I am not already envious of the Californians and west coasters who are (presumably) blissfully going about their regular business (rather that waiting for the ominous coming of powerless days and the unknowing of when it will come back)….they can also plant Lotus jacobaeus. When I saw this zone 9-11 plant on Annie’s [...]

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Working Things out of My System

I have been overwhelming my self with inspiration lately, between my blogging class and the subsequent explorations, my new “can you make this into a garden series” and other funny things creeping into my life (Walt Whitman poems and the sort). I have a few things I need to just post about and get out [...]

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Blogging Class….& Garden Mascots

I wanted to share with you a little personal improvement mission…I want this blog to continue to grow and flourish and I am happy for it to continue to take over my professional life. To that end, I have enrolled in a class that is being given by Holly Becker of Decor8. The class started [...]

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So So Sad

I am not sure I should write this post as I am a little emotional and unsure of my own ability to write about this type of thing. Tragedy struck my little town on Saturday (yesterday) when a tree fell on a mother and teenage daughter. The mother remains in serious condition and the daughter [...]

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A Tour of this Garden Design Blog

So, you might have noticed, things changed around here a little bit last weekend.  I have to thank my husband profusely for all the work he did making my ideas reality.    I am still getting used to things (I also upgraded to the latest version of WordPress) and am finding bugs and broken links everywhere…if [...]

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Last day of Giveaway

Just a reminder….today is the last day of the domino giveaway. You have until tonight to enter. I have worked up this image as my regular ‘give-away’ image. I love how the fireworks are just a profusion of flowers. So from now on, if you see this image…we are giving something away…

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Would love to hear what you think…

So as you can see it is up and running…my husband and  I have been working on it all weekend and I am well aware that there are many missing links at the moment…but that aside, I would love to hear what you think. I will give a full tour when it is all linked [...]

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