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"Earth laughs in flowers." Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Let there be adjoining the House a convenient
garden, it being the purest of human pleasures, and a great
refreshment to the Spirit of Man without which Buildings are but
gross Handyworks." Unknown
more quotations
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GARDENS
Bok Tower Gardens and Spook Hill - Beauty and
the bizarre in Florida
Muir Woods - A wonder near San Francisco
Naples Area
Travel and Plants - Flowers and more in the south of Italy
Oklahoma
City's Myriad Gardens and Crystal Bridge -
We've tucked some photos of OKC's world class botanical garden into a
general article on the capital city of Oklahoma - please scroll down
Oklahoma City Zoo - Photo essay
Rose
Rocks - The prairie flowers made of stone
San Francisco
Vail - Photos
of Colorado's Betty Ford Alpine Garden
Villa d'Este - Tivoli's tribute to the water feature with Italian Renaissance magic
PLANT and GARDENING TIPS
Carolina Jasmine - A beautiful
springtime vine
Dividing
Perennials - A little work and you've got free plants and a
healthier garden
Fairies
and Fairy Rings - Fairy rings are real, but do you believe
in fairies?
Fertilizer Facts - Growing better plants by the numbers
Flower Arranging 101
Flower Language - Find out what the flowers are saying about you!
Forcing Bulbs for Winter
Beauty
Garden Bell Ornament - A
little clay pot + some Jane Marie magic = one cute decoration for Christmas or any time
Gerber
Daisy - Bright, popular and easy to live with
Great Outdoors - Our pages dedicate to fresh air and sunshine
(Welcome) Landscape Timber Craft - Decorate your yard for any occasion
 a Velvet Undertow favorite
Mulch - Here's the secret to healthy, easy care gardens
Onion Flowers for Your
Garden - Pennies per bloom
Pansies - Set out a happy face
a Goodbye Lie favorite
Peas - Who knew there was so
much to know about those veggies every child loves to play with?
Poinsettia Cheer -
Care and feeding
a Goodbye Lie favorite
Potpourri - It's easy to
save your flowers forever!
Pressed
Flowers - A Victorian tradition for today
Repotting - Be good
to your plants
Thank you very much
for putting your no nonsense practical instructions on how to repot
spider plants on the net.
I am very grateful, and so is my spider plant and his comfortable roots.
Juliet
Rose Petals - Save those rose petals. We'll show you how to do wonderful
things with them.
Shamrock Plant -You don't have to be Irish to enjoy this easy care house or garden
(in the Southern US) plant
a Goodbye Lie favorite
Spring Flowering
Bulbs - Plant now for a colorful
future
Sprinklers - There's
more to sprinklers than things you stick on the end of a hose.
Click and learn.
Summer Entertainment
Tussie Mussie - An easy nosegay that keeps for years
a Goodbye Lie favorite
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At
one time, we had four ponds in our yard. Although super gardener,
aka our Director of Fireworks,
has since changed his landscaping plan, we both got a lot of information
from the Complete Guide to Watergardens. We
recommend you get a copy of this book before you dig. Nancy
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When I first moved
to the southwestern US, I drove across Arkansas to Texas on an interstate
highway bordered by miles and miles of wildflowers. Rick Imes'
book, Wildflowers, brought it all back - who wouldn't
fall in love with a land covered in beauty? Nancy
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Don't
be deceived by the title of Natural Gardening in Small Spaces.
Author Noël Kingsbury was apparently raised in the wide open spaces
of Patagonia or perhaps Manitoba and has a very different concept
of the word small.
However, Kingsbury has included lots of information that will
be helpful to people in diverse zones who want to create habitat
beautiful gardens.
The book is worth a look. Nancy
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Prolific
garden and gardening author Laura C. Martin caught my eye with her
book on Southern Gardens. I love visiting public
gardens and this book highlights some regional treasures.
I'm glad to have discovered the series. You will be, too. Nancy
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In
my slow but steady plan to visit all the major gardens I possibly
can, I rely on books like Diane Kostial McGuire's Gardens
of America. McGuire's nicely-illustrated work gives
a history of American gardening that brings an interesting element
to my passion for gardens. Nancy
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Not your
typical gardening book, Susan Orlean's work of non fiction is
a must for those who want to know more about the orchid business
and weirdness in general. Nancy
PS Adaptation is the film about making The Orchid
Thief into a movie. Now that I've seen it, I'm not
sure how I feel about recommending it. The UTD thinks it's brilliant for the car crashes alone, but while the
acting is great and the concept is clever, Adaptation did not grab me by the tendrils and make me want to own a copy
- my personal bottom line. And definitely, do NOT read the
book first
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I
was in a hurry when I picked up The New Kitchen Garden. It wasn't until
I got home that I realized it was not a cookbook,
but a wonderful garden design and information book with recipes.
Score! Nancy
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Given the unusual weather conditions in the last years, it makes
sense to concentrate on local plant varieties that might have the
best chance to survive.
Enter
Patricia A. Taylor's Easy Care Native Plants.
Taylor has taken a complicated and wide-ranging list of possibilities
(sorry about the territorial pun) and given us lots of plant choices
we can feel comfortable with. Finally. Nancy
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Spiral bound, The Garden Planner, by John N. Walker
and Graham Strong is made up of stacks of four cards per page.
The front of each card is a beautiful color photograph of an individual
species of flower. The back explains the care and feeding
of each plant. By flipping through, you can try different
combinations in planning your beds and borders. I think it's
gardening fun - even when the weather won't let me work outside. Jane Marie
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Michelle Wan is writing an excellent murder mystery series set in the Dordogne region of France. One of the main characters is an orchid fanatic, and there's so much local charm in the books, you will be delighted. Begin with The Orchid Thief. Nancy |
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click on the photos of the butterfly
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summer - fall 2004 Nature Conservancy's Spirit of the Buffalo public art project in OKC
complete list of buffalo
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flower pot at the Pompidou Centre, the most visited museum in France
Tips:
To keep the cats out of your flower garden, scatter dog hair in the beds. It's free and won't harm Mother Nature or your plants. Bonnie Shivley
Graveside care:
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Respect the rules of the cemetery
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Do not chalk tombstones - it's hard on the stone
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Do not use bleach or shaving cream to clean a headstone - the chemicals are too strong
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Use water and a soft cloth to remove dirt from a headstone
painting of Fritillaria Imperiale by Vincent van Gogh in Musée d'Orsay
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