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It's the holiday season, the weather is really cold, my son is driving back from Boston... and I am thinking about baking scones. Not just any scones, but those baked by my friend on one of my visits with her in California.
Once upon a time, Betsy...
Blue water, cliff-hanging villages and lemon groves. These are the visual imagines that come to mind when I reminisce about the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy.
There's much more that cannot be captured in photos. The kindness and hospitality of the...
There are few plants in the garden that are virtually maintenance-free. My favorite foliage plant is carex hachijoensis 'Evergold' that can be used in sun or part shade, zones 5-10 and is both deer and rabbit resistant.
I have several varieties of...
Six inches of rain and the ground was soft. Nature provided the perfect condition for digging a nice, clean edge around the outer gardens. I got out the flat blade shovel and started cutting straight down through the grass to dig out a perfect edge....
Just as important as the species of plants to select for one's garden are the photos to show how beautiful everything can be for even a casual gardener. Thanks for the great photography.
