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Spring, Yes Spring
Sometimes there is nothing else to be said except. Spring. Finally. It's spring. Brave blossoms defy the cold and bloom At ground level or above they bloom despite rain or wind The sun is still low and it back lights the Easter flower. Even the bonsai Quince expends...
Vegetable Garden – In ground (sort of)
Our Grandparents grew food. They knew that they could grow what they couldn’t buy in the store. During the World War fresh food was scarce so they cultivated the ground and grew there own. The need for growing food kind of skipped a generation because our parents had...
Little Bytes: Begonia Prep and Plant
If you have been following the blog for a while you will remember in fall we pulled our begonias out after the first frost and stored them over the winter. If you didn't have any to winter over they are available at the Nursery now and you can grab a couple of tubers...
Herb Planting Adventure
Hello friends! Kristen here with an herb pot I successfully planted this past weekend using the Little Bytes tutorial we posted last week. This winter has been terribly cold and really long here in Chicago. I've heard that our spring is something like two weeks...
Little Bytes: Container Prep and Herb Garden
Welcome back to Little Bytes! I'm excited to start our first container today. Jen will be my partner-in-crime for this demo. Before going out to purchase the necessary supplies to plant her pots, Jen needed to figure out where to put them. She picked out a spot by...
Introducing Little Bytes
We are so excited to share with you about Little Bytes (you may have seen us mention it in our recent blog posts). We've noticed over the past year many folks saying "I wish I could grow something like that" and "If someone would break it down for me I think I could...
Little Bytes – Bringing the Garden In
Here is a quick garden house Byte... My local nursery has some great things in the green house and I recently picked out this sarracenia Flava from Courting Frogs Nursery. Use this quick tutorial to bring the garden indoors as we wait for our plants to wake up...
Terra Cadence The Rhythm of the Earth: NWFGS in retrospect
'Art in Bloom' was the theme of the NWFGS this year and it was interesting to see all the way's designers incorporated art, used art as a focal point, and used different mediums of art in the gardens. There is a debate going on now in artistic circles about whether...
NWFGS: Highlights
The Northwest Flower and Garden show is officially done! We had such a good show this year and are pleased with the overall response. Today we wanted to share with you some of the highlights of our week. First up, our garden won a gold medal! You can't really top...
NWFGS: Closing
Well folks, the garden show is coming to an end. At 6pm today they will be closing the doors for the last time this season. We had a snow storm roll in last night and, after going to see Sleeping Beauty with my grand-daughter, daughter and her mother-in-law, had a...
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