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
Gaga’s Garden Creatures
Plano, Texas, home of Gaga’s urban garden is a microcosm of urban sprawl. One of Dallas largest suburbs, Plano is completely locked in by municipalities and can’t expand. There’s little undeveloped land remaining. This land originally was farm land all the way to the Red River which forms the border Continue Reading
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Rosie View for 2011
The award winning film A Room With a View won Best Picture of 1986, National Board of Review. It’s a British 3 time academy award winner about, “when Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr. Emerson and son George step Continue Reading
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Meet Annie Haven, The Moo-Poo Tea Lady
Before organic was in vogue I was using every form of soil amendment to fertilize. Let’s review. I won an American Rose Society National Award for Best Climber for Tempo that had been fertilized with egg shells and coffee grounds. I had a little flowerbed of snapdragons in the first Continue Reading
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Telepathic Blackspot Message
Winter Garden Option  Wanda, Dedicated Blackspot Eradicator If I’m not thinking about spider mites I’m thinking about blackspot. Now it’s been too cool in North Texas and we have had too much rain for spider mites so you guessed it, what am I thinking about? Blackspot.  I was thinking Continue Reading