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  • Some Like it Harsh February 8, 2012
    Not every plant likes to have it cozy, crumbly and moist. Many plants around the world thrive living even in the harshest of growing conditions. Rocks, sand, little moisture and blowing winds are their idea of having a good time while loads of compost, high humidity and wet feet can bring them uncomfortable feelings or... [Continue Reading] […]
    Kathy Green
  • Bald Eagle Recovery February 7, 2012
    This past weekend I traveled to the Conowingo Dam at the Susquehanna River along the PA/MD border to see the Bald Eagles who spend the winter here. The Conowingo Dam is one of the largest non-federal hydroelectric facilities in the US, and when it is generating electricity fish and water are sucked into the dam... [Continue Reading] […]
    Carole Sevilla Brown
  • You Win Some, You Lose Some… February 6, 2012
    I went to the garden t’other day, O readers, to have a good mope. I had a pretty good reason. The little cafe in town that has been there for years and years suddenly went out of business, completely without warning, ffft! gone. Now, I could come up with a lot of noble reasons why... [Continue Reading] […]
    Ursula Vernon
  • When Birds Recycle February 3, 2012
    I was out and about on Sunday, cleaning up after the dogs and looking for wildlife of interest. January is not always the best time of year to find things, but Florida has experienced a relatively warm winter and spring is in the air so we have our fair share of resident wildlife meandering around.... [Continue Reading] […]
    Loret T. Setters
  • Orange Moon and The Grandmother Tree February 1, 2012
    Exploring the wonders of nature with the children who come to visit my wildlife garden is one of the greatest joys of my life. We turn over rocks to look for the Worm Snake who lives there. We watch the bugs with our hand lenses. We are amazed when the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis.... [Continue Reading] […]
    Carole Sevilla Brown

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Messages From The Buffa10 Gardens

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,

motivation, and a pinch

of creativity.

~Bo Bennett

The gardens of Buffa10 were more than lovely, they were inspiring. Narrow alleys are transformed into garden pathways, blighted views into beautiful garden vistas. Buffalo is blooming and it was exciting to experience! Each garden we toured spoke [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Seen But Not Heard

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

~ Leroy Brownlow

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Victory Beans!

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

~William Shakespeare

This is a gardening season has a rallying cry “Rise to the challenge!” The weather has been changeable, unpredictable and just plain odd. The critters are working in tandem a they tour the garden at will and [...]

Gardens Happen

Life is what happens to you

while you’re busy making other plans.

~John Lennon

A garden is a wonderful teacher, especially when it comes to lessons in predictability and planning. Rarely is anything predictable in my garden… one of the things I love most about tending it. There’s the sweet [...]

How to Grow: Comfrey

A weed is but an unloved flower.

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Comfrey: invasive perennial or super-garden plant? Maybe a bit of both… though I definitely lean towards the latter. Comfrey is a perennial herb (or to some a “useful weed”) and a member of [...]

Melon-choly

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome.

All that an obstacle does with brave men is,

not to frighten them,but to challenge them.

~Woodrow Wilson

Every gardener has a plant (or two or three) that pose a challenge to his/her growing skills. [...]

Why I Garden

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.

My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.

The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers and the dreams are as beautiful.

-Abram L. Urban

Alison Kerr at Loving Nature’s Garden asked in a recent [...]

How's It Growin'?

A lot has changed in the indoor garden this past week. I see something new everyday.

The stevia cuttings have small roots now.

The radicchio has red-tinged leaves.

The onion seedlings are ready to transplant.

The okra is developing a second set of leaves, the peppers their first.

Sage seedlings show their characteristic [...]