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Mellifluous Botanicals

These are some of our favorite summer flowers picked fresh and isolated in their own miniature found glass jar. Each is a perfect specimen. Blooming in the July…

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Red and Pink Currants

It’s been a banner year for currants. From just a few plants in the front yard garden we have enjoyed a bounty of these tiny tart fruits. Maybe…

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Zinnias in the Kitchen Garden

We love easy to grow zinnias in the kitchen garden. It’s a perfect match- annual flowers planted with annual vegetables. Every year we plant a border of the…

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Winter Aromatherapy: Lemons

Sure, if you live in California, Texas or Florida winter gloom is no big deal for you. You can run outside and pick fresh lemons from your own…

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Faux Follies and Fake Ruins

I am creating a secret garden for a client that needs a wall. I want something that stops the eye as you stroll down the path- something to…

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Winter Color in the Garden

Once upon a time the fashionable winter garden was a boring line of evergreen spheres. We were afraid of brown and tan and golden flax. We were afraid…

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