Southern Sunday
Happy Sunday! I am remembering a past post where I just took a stroll around the yard and enjoyed God’s majesty! Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the...
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Just a few shots from my garden in pots. First off, the marigolds. Planting marigolds in your garden improves the soil for the other plants: Love the combination of red and orange. Below, you can see...
View ArticleSouthern Home Farming
The weather is getting hot, hot, hot and that is a great time to skip turning on the oven and just use veggies from the garden! So many wonderful possibilities springing from a few seeds! Tonight, I...
View ArticleSouthern Defense
Yes, today I am defending the oft maligned – mimosa tree! The beautiful, fragrant, puffy pink clouds in the Mimosa Tree (sometimes called a silken tree) have gotten a bad reputation for some! Not me, I...
View ArticleSurviving the Winter!
If you have been around here awhile you may remember my past attempts at trying to keep my beautiful summer ferns alive inside through the winter. NOT a pretty site! Well, I have tried it again this...
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My, what a labor of love a garden is. Been working on getting my garden in this weekend. It is a bit late, but with soooooo much rain, I had to wait for a dry weekend. It turned out that this weekend...
View ArticleHow A Southern Garden Grows
No matter how many times I put in a garden I will never cease to be amazed at the way they grow and what they give back. You may remember, a few weeks back when I posted about putting in my garden....
View ArticleCabbage…lots of it!
Every fall I plant broccoli. It does quite well in pots on my patio – container gardening is a trade off in the city for a nicely landscaped yard. In New Orleans transplants are generally available...
View ArticleWinter Gardens
In late December, my husband and I took a walk around a garden district neighborhood in New Orleans. We took pictures of a lot of the Christmas decorations, but I also enjoyed seeing all of the things...
View ArticleContainer Veggies
March 2 is the last spring frost date in New Orleans, and I usually try to get my first vegetables planted around then to beat the summer heat. That was my project for a recent cold weekend, with lows...
View ArticleRosemary for Remembrance
Shakespeare said, “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember.” The saying “rosemary for remembrance” is obviously taken from this quote, but interestingly enough, science shows us...
View ArticleBird of Paradise – It Finally Bloomed!
I wrote some time ago (before I moved to New Orleans) about my bird of paradise plant. When I got the plant, it was with the knowledge that it may not bloom for up to 7 years. Sooo, I have nurtured...
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