Gardening on a slope in southeast Tennessee
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When you start a new garden with a blank slate, bare ground, all from scratch, all of the experience from a lifetime of lessons learned can be called upon. When you start a new garden that you will only be able to toil in the soil one or two days a month, special considerations must [...]
How do I love thee, let me count the ways…*, so goes the perfect phrases of true love’s expression written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In late winter, it is the blooming hellebores, Helleborus orientalis, that reach into the depth of my soul to sear it with happiness. The seedlings fr
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Buds, like babies, are so full of what is yet to be. There are no disappointments, only promises to be fulfilled. Opened flowers are wonderful, releasing fragrance, giving joy, but once blooming, the peak has passed. It is all downhill from there. Above: Helleborus x hybridus ‘Blue Lady’
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While reading a magazine that comes from across the pond, the UK version of The English Garden, an article was noticed in the March 2012 issue, “SPEEDWELL & the song bird”, written by Chris Beardshaw. This is part of his series on native plants and wildlife. The Speedwell of which he
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2012 will be the year, again, that the Fairegarden is devoting more gardening energy to the growing of food. A similar decision was made in 2008 when the veggie bed was created at the back property line. The photo above shows the work in progress. The space is a fifty foot by three foot planting [..
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As February flutters along on winds as strong and unrelenting as in tales of old, the colors other than grey and brown outside the windows give comfort to a bundled up gardener. Above: Swiss chard shining brightly. Be they rouge or biscuit, golden or rainbow tinted, living leaves decorate the landsc
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Welcome friends to the February 2012 edition of Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, hosted by Carol of May Dreams Gardens. This time of year often finds a scarcity of blooms to share, but years of researching which plants will flower in winter and also grow in our Zone 7a, no change with the new map, has [..
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If there’s anything that you want, If there’s anything I can do, Just call on me And I’ll send it along With love From me To you *** *”From Me to You” is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles as a single in 1963. I still have [...]
We could go down a lot of different gravel paths with this title, let there be no doubt, but we have chosen this time to name and show things in threes that I have noticed as spring tries to emerge from its winter-ish wrappings while out and about in this small, Southeast Tennessee town. So [...]
I live in the valley between the Cumberland and Smoky Mountains in Southeast Tennessee. It is a place of dreaminess…and music. A certain kind of music, of the earth and the people who revere these magnificent hills and ravines. Blood stirring music. Click to listen, if you so desire, while you
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