Winter Scenes
Category Archives: Landscapes
The new flowerbed is finished – for now
Some people make new garden beds by marking the edge, tilling the garden and putting in the shrubs and plants. My way is a little more casual. When we moved into this house last summer the only flowerbed was little … Continue reading
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Some fall berries
Simpson Garden, Bowling Green Ohio – a new conifer garden and a herb garden Continue reading
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Cool Fall Mornings
The nights are definately getting cooler, and even though the days are mild the trees are turning color. This week I shot some video of the bright yellow colors in the garden. We also have a large pond next door … Continue reading
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A Garden Day and I have Beans!
Today was a great day in the garden – nice cool temps and cloudy to start. I bought several chrysanthemums earlier in the week that needed to be put into the ground, as well as 3 new hellebores that arrived … Continue reading
Photography & Writing
Since the move there have been a few new opportunities arrive but not only do they require good writing, but they need excellant photographs too. I have the camera but those F-stops/aperture, ISO and things were still a foreign language. … Continue reading
Relocating Again
When I started this blog I was celebrating swapping the snow shovel for a swimming pool as we relocated from Pittsburgh to Atlanta. The blog now goes now goes back to the north – Toledo – where I get to … Continue reading
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Tagged garden renovation, relocating, Toledo Botanic Garden, Toledo Grows
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Gardenia Season is Here
The fragrant gardenia bloom The calendar shows the end of May and the official start of summer is celebrated. In the garden that is shown by the first flush of the gardenias. These dark green, glossy leaves make for a lovely evergreen … Continue reading
A Holly Tree
Sometimes I think I must wear blinders when I am in the garden. It seems like the only explanation for walking, almost every day, past a thirty foot holly and not noticing it! The large tree has been limbed up … Continue reading
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Autumnal photographs
I needed to find some photographs for the header page of this blog and found myself going through a whole bunch of old (relatively old, anyway) photographs, The digital era has created an atmosphere where even rotten photographs are … Continue reading
