Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Dec 5, 2009, 10:40 pm
I've seen the "Just Add Ice" orchids in the stores before and thought to myself, "Yeah, sure." I even bought one awhile back and discarded the ice information, because everything in me says that p...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Dec 3, 2009, 8:35 pm
Just polishing my crown here. As The Queen of Procrastination, I can tell you all the advantages to waiting to the last minute to do things while acknowledging that there are also disadvantages. Howev...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Dec 2, 2009, 3:47 pm
You've got to love it when fall spills over into winter. The local weathercasters told me today that November was the fifth warmest on record for our area. Yesterday's high was 53°. But tom...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 30, 2009, 8:49 pm
I first met Shirley Bovshow through blogging, then ran into her again on Facebook, and eventually we chatted with each other on Twitter. In case you've not had the pleasure of getting to know her...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 28, 2009, 10:05 pm
Flora Mirabilis: How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty by Catherine Herbert Howell 256 pages National Geographic, October 2009 List price: $35.00 When National Geographi...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 27, 2009, 3:45 pm
For someone who has overwintered 175+ plants in her house, you'd think one of them would be a Christmas Cactus. But as you wade through the jungle of Brugmansias, Begonias, Kalanchoes, and Hibisc...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 25, 2009, 3:19 pm
It's ten days past Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day and only one month until Christmas. Who would have ever thought so much would be blooming outside around here? An earlier commenter to this blog ...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 21, 2009, 10:04 pm
This is likely going to be old news for some of you, but for those who haven't yet heard the good word on dirt, listen up. It turns out that dirt is good for your mental health. I'm not going ...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 16, 2009, 6:54 pm
In spite of our extremely mild November weather - almost record-setting warmth, in fact - there is relatively little blooming here at Our Little Acre for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. But in Novembe...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 15, 2009, 8:30 pm
I've got a death grip on autumn this year. Maybe it's because last year we had the winter that Would. Not. End. I don't look forward to what happens after Christmas, but perhaps we'll...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 13, 2009, 11:18 am
Ever since I saw the compost bins at the Gene Stratton Porter gardens at Rome City, Indiana, shown to me by Earth Girl, I had compost bin envy. I knew this was something I wanted, something I needed f...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 11, 2009, 9:21 am
Remember the Korean Violet (Viola koreana 'Sylettas') I was so thrilled to find after its long absence from my garden? I transplanted the tiny thing to a safer location, surrounded it with sma...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 10, 2009, 7:06 am
The first time I noticed that some plants are more fragrant at night than during the day was when I first had to bring the Brugmansias inside for the winter. Being in a small enclosed space, you just ...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 9, 2009, 9:12 am
“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees." ~ C.S. Lewis We're enjoying Indian Summer, Version 2.0, and the high temperature yeste...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 7, 2009, 1:49 pm
If you're a regular reader of this blog (thank you!), you know from time to time I post a review of a gardening-related book that I've read. My purpose in sharing these books with you is three...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 6, 2009, 10:15 pm
... shop located south of Van Wert on US 127 (of World's Longest Yard Sale fame). They were quite busy, and our table for lunch wasn't quite ready for us, so we browsed the rooms of the sho...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 5, 2009, 12:53 pm
It's that time of year again. The Jack-O'-Lanterns' lights have gone out and pumpkins can once again be used for their original purpose: making us fat. Okay, just kidding. Only we make us...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 4, 2009, 10:59 pm
When Mom and I first visited Schedel Arboretum and Gardens in the fall of 2007, we came upon a beautiful ground flower that resembled giant crocuses. We'd not seen any like them in person before, ...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 3, 2009, 12:32 am
What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?): A Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth 452 pages Timber Press (December 2, 2009) Li...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 2, 2009, 12:52 pm
This past summer, Mom and I visited the trial gardens at Michigan State University. That was like walking through a candy store, with the colorful array of annuals in full bloom laid before us in stri...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 1, 2009, 10:31 pm
What's new to me is sometimes old to someone else, especially in the plant world, because I'm so new to it. I just completed my fifth summer of gardening and though I've learned a heck of ...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Nov 1, 2009, 5:42 pm
As the colder months are breathing down our necks, and the holidays are edging their way into our periphery, it's the perfect time to hunker down with a good book or two. In most climates, gardeni...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 30, 2009, 4:54 pm
We've long passed the peak migration period for the Monarch butterflies in our area (mid-September), even though we saw one in the garden earlier this week. The straggler had better get on his way...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 29, 2009, 9:02 pm
We live in the land of Johnny Appleseed. To our east, not far from here, is Defiance, where he established one of his nurseries on the north bank of the Maumee River. Most of the early apple orchard...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 29, 2009, 12:52 pm
Bloom-Again Orchids: 50 Easy-Care Orchids that Flower Again and Again and Again by judywhite 132 pages Timber Press (November 28, 2009) List price $14.95 Who thinks orchids are scary plants, ha...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 26, 2009, 8:42 pm
You may have noticed that I added what's called a "Facebook Fan Box" in the column on the right. It's likely that you've heard of Facebook before, and perhaps you're a registered user...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 25, 2009, 10:37 pm
As I mentioned in a previous post, Lola has a new home. She spent her last full day here at Our Little Acre on Friday and her new owners came to fetch her on Saturday. They were excited to meet her...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 23, 2009, 9:47 pm
The morning greeted me with downpours of rain and continued until mid-afternoon. This put an end to the nicer days of our Indian Summer, but for several brief shining moments, the sun returned long en...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 4, 2009, 9:10 pm
Poppies fascinate me. Their colorful blooms blowing in the wind remind me of stretched-out cupcake papers. Orange ones make me think of The Wizard of Oz, one of my favorite childhood movies. They gro...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 2, 2009, 3:34 pm
My good friend Marsha and I were supposed to teach a class on geocaching for a local Women in the Outdoors event scheduled for October 3rd. We taught it last year and had fun both introducing this ac...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Oct 2, 2009, 10:03 am
Many of you are familiar with Blotanical, the website "where garden blogs bloom." For the past few weeks, nominations and voting were carried out for their annual Blotanical Awards for excellence in m...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 30, 2009, 1:53 pm
I knew it was coming, but I've been in denial. As much as I thought I was ready for the winter break from gardening, now that it is upon us, I'm not so sure I want it just yet. The news has be...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 27, 2009, 11:55 pm
When the wild asters are in full bloom, the skies are bluer than blue, and the breezes bring that distinctive feel to the air, you know it's fall. The leaves have started to change, so much so th...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 27, 2009, 10:20 pm
There's a particular wildflower print I've seen, and I have to have it. I've googled the name[s] and I've searched botanical prints on Art.com. My searches have come up empty, bu...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 26, 2009, 1:54 pm
When our gardens were in the Van Wert County Master Gardeners Garden Walk in August, there were three plants that caught the attention of several visitors. If you would have asked me prior to the ga...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 23, 2009, 10:29 pm
The 2009 Blotanical Awards are now open for voting and I am honored that Our Little Acre has been nominated for Best Ohio Blog! Blotanical is a website that brings together over 1500 garden blogs...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 22, 2009, 9:39 pm
It's begun. We are in the transition from summer to winter, otherwise known as autumn. The weather is fickle from one week to the next, sometimes one day to the next. My favorite fall days are d...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 20, 2009, 10:08 pm
Each year I try to grow at least one new thing in my potager garden and if it leans to the side of the unusual, all the better. Since I'm a relatively new gardener (2005), there are many things t...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 17, 2009, 10:00 pm
Besides the unusual weather of the summer, this year also brought an unwelcome visitor to the gardens. Poison ivy. The property where Our Little Acre is located was once a woods. It was mostly clea...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 15, 2009, 2:10 pm
Just when I was ready to chop everything down due to the dry weather we've had all summer, we got a few days of rain. It's amazing what life-giving stuff that is! The garden responded quickl...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 14, 2009, 11:31 am
In our part of the country, as in others, the autumn season brings heavy morning fog. Schools here have "calamity days" built in to the schedule with the intent of using them for days when snow or ic...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 12, 2009, 10:58 pm
Mums come in such great colors and forms. There are elebenty-lebben shades of orange, as well as red, yellow, pink, purple, and white. There are cushion, spider, football, daisy, quill, spoon, and pom...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 11, 2009, 10:00 pm
I was too young to really remember much about President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, but those older than I am can likely tell you where they were when they heard the news. I do, however, rem...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 10, 2009, 10:10 am
Though I've done memes like this thrice before (here, here, and here), I agreed to participate in yet another one when Carol of May Dreams Gardens tagged me. This time, I decided to do it in a li...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 9, 2009, 10:49 pm
When I started gardening, I also began to notice things besides plant life in the garden. With flowers come bees and butterflies, sure, but wait! There's more! Moths and spiders and insects of al...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 7, 2009, 4:45 pm
It's only fitting that I should do this post on Labor Day. Those of you who know my mother know the kind of energy she has (and that we wish we had) and how she puts it to good use. She worked f...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Sep 1, 2009, 9:10 am
Summer is drawing to a close and the garden is showing it. As I walk out to Max's Garden, my Crocs accumulate the tell-tale orange stain of yet another dry summer. It's the third one in a ro...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Aug 31, 2009, 2:02 pm
I'm known to wander through the woods with bag and trowel in hand, just in case I come across a plant that needs relocating to our gardens. We have friends that own a woods near here that holds a ...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Aug 31, 2009, 1:01 pm
Okay, so that isn't exactly what Emerson said, but the best mousetrap is a cat, so let's talk about mailboxes. We live out in the country, where mailboxes are usually perched atop a post, a...
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Kylee B. posted an article on Our Little Acre - Aug 25, 2009, 10:24 am
I first saw Henry one day a couple of years ago and it was love at first sight. I'm a little embarrassed to say that our relationship began as an internet romance. I know, I know... All the u...
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