On Becoming A Rose Sommelier

Sommelier, doesn’t that have an elegant ring? You also will wear a tastevin on a silver chain around your neck, French for “taste wine.” According to Master Sommelier Catherine Fallis at the French Culinary Institute in Campbell, CA when asked what does becoming a Sommelier mean to the average person “It means doing Continue Reading

5 Lessons Gardening Can Teach You About Social Media by Margie Clayman

Black Cherry, Floribunda Rose Gagasgarden

About the author Margie Clayman works at her family’s advertising agency, Clayman Advertising, where she represents the 3rd generation! Margie dreams of Gaga’s gardens, but is only an amateur gardener herself. Margie blogs at www.margieclayman.com. 5 Lessons Gardening Can Teach You About Social Media The other day, I was looking Continue Reading

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

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

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