It’s time to think about winter plant protection. Last year while in USDA plant hardiness zone 7B, Plano, Texas “Oui” showed you how to build a green house for $142.00. That’s how “Oui” protected our potted plants from a fairly severe Texas winter, https://gagasgarden.com/?p=135. Now in Illinois, the plant zone Continue Reading
Gaga’s Garden update from Illinois
I’ve been off the grid for a little bit while moving to Illinois. The new gardens in Illinois, on 3 acres, will involve heavy equipment and my beautiful new red gardening barn including a cupola that has a weather vane and a horse on buggy proudly perched atop. Now I Continue Reading
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Best Tips For Pruning Roses Stress-Free
I would like to coin a new gardening phrase. Pruning post traumatic stress disorder (PPTSD) I have it, it’s real, I suffer every President’s Day. It occurred from having pruned right after President’s Day in Texas. President’s Day is supposed to be the last day of the danger of a Continue Reading
A Garden is a Gathering Place, Where It Began
The next scheduled editorial item has been kid’s garden and since I decided I needed just one more festive Halloween decoration to delight the Trick or Treaters and fell out of the attic while trying to retrieve it there has been a slight delay to the kid’s garden. Last week Continue Reading
Converting Clay Soils, How Mark Chamblee Roses Does It
OUI ONE DIGS DIRT A lively understandable spirit once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. Theodore Roethke In preparation for our Oui Ones Garden let’s talk about dirt. Learning to grow roses or anything for that matter in Texas versus Northern Illinois was like growing plants on Continue Reading