Blog Profile / Our Little Acre
| URL : | http://ourlittleacre.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Hobbies / Gardening | |
| Posts on Regator: | 999 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.6 | |
| Archived Since: | March 5, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Divine Appointment With a Daylily
Once upon a time, I bought a daylily seedling from local hybridizer Lana Wolfe. Mom and I had visited her daylily gardens in Ft. Wayne - Hidden Acres - back in 2006. We both bought several other daylilies and mine have all done veryShow More Summary
How Do You Preserve Your Wood Items?
Recently, I purchased a new twig chair for the garden, because the one I bought five years ago deteriorated so much that it was rotting and breaking. We had to burn it, but I wanted another one like it.
Freshly sealed with Olympic Wood...Show More Summary
A Good Year for Roses
June is National Rose Month and we're celebrating in style here at Our Little Acre. As anyone who grows roses knows, some years are better than others and more times that not, the good years are when we get plenty of spring rain. This...Show More Summary
The Garden Appreciation Society: Week 5
I haven't kept up with each week of cutting selections from the garden to enjoy inside, mainly because I haven't spent much time inside in the last few weeks! We were preparing for a garden club's visit to Our Little Acre (more on that...Show More Summary
How to Prepare For a Derecho (or Other Such Storms)
Here we go again.
If you were a reader of this blog a year ago, you know that we were smack in the middle of a weird storm in which we temporarily lost our patio table and a few other things and we were without power for six long, very...Show More Summary
Need New Gardening Gloves? Win Some!
When I was asked by Kara at Angela's Garden if I would like to try a pair of their Classic Gloves, I jumped at the chance. Though I have several pairs of gloves that I like, I'm always open to trying something new.
Angela's Garden Classic...Show More Summary
Baby Beds at Our Little Acre
As I prepared for a visit from a local garden club tomorrow, I was pruning and weeding, of course. When I noticed a lone parsnip had grown up in the raised bed where I grew them a couple of years ago, I nearly pulled it out.
You can see three of the black swallowtail caterpillars in this picture.
Fortunately, I noticed something else. Show More Summary
Lowe's Creative Ideas: Summer Bulbs Dress Up a Dry Bed
We have a section of our largest garden that has never made me happy as long as the garden has been in existence. It's a bit of a difficult area, design-wise and being a design-challenged gardener, I just never really knew what to do there.
Then I got an idea. Show More Summary
How to Plant Sedum Acre
I'll make this short and sweet.
A few years ago, my sister-in-law was walking through my garden and she saw a plant she really liked. I asked her how much she liked it. A lot, she said.
I told her to grab a handful of it, take it home, throw it at the ground and give it a little water, if she was in the mood.
No digging? That's right. Show More Summary
The Accidental Bouquet
I suppose one flower can't a bouquet make, but when it comes to alliums, I think we're good with it. The large headed alliums such as 'Globemaster' and 'Purple Sensation' are actually made up of hundreds of individual tiny flowers.
When...Show More Summary
Killdeer: Smart or Stupid?
Killdeer (Wikimedia Commons)
A sure sign of spring here in NW Ohio is the sound of the killdeer as we work outside in the garden. They returned many weeks ago and while their song might be annoying to some, it's one I enjoy hearing.
Yesterday, Romie and I took a walk down to Poohsticks Bridge on an absolutely perfect spring day. Show More Summary
One Flower's Point of View
In light of yesterday's post, this strip from The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside presents an interesting point of view... (Click to enlarge)
Forcing Myself to Enjoy the Flowers
You must think the title of this post is strange. I mean, what kind of gardener has to force herself to enjoy flowers? Well, it isn't that hard for me to enjoy them; in fact, I enjoy them a little too much - in my gardens.
I'm one of...Show More Summary
Wordless Wednesday: Tree Peony 'Shimanishiki'
Seen in the Smiley Park Children's Garden in Van Wert, OH...
Paeonia suffruticosa 'Shimanishiki'
Lowe's Creative Ideas: A Rainbow of Color For a Partly Shady Garden - and a Deck!
Our average last frost date here at Our Little Acre in northwest Ohio is May 15th, but it's been a long time since we've had a frost that late. This year, spring has taken its sweet time getting here, although we've had some nice weather here and there. Show More Summary
Perky-Pet® Bird Feeder - NO SQUIRRELS!
Thankfully, we aren't bothered by squirrels trying to eat at our bird feeders here at Our Little Acre. It's not that we don't have squirrels, because we do. We even had one in our house once. (THAT was fun.) But for some reason, they...Show More Summary
The "Indoor Plant Décor" Virtual Book Tour
This is a special week for co-writer Jenny Peterson and me. Our new book - Indoor Plant Décor: The Design Stylebook for Houseplants - has been out and about for two weeks now and we've been busy with book signings and in Jenny's case, a TV appearance on Central Texas Gardener. Show More Summary
Tree Peony Suckers
Just a few weeks ago, I was rejoicing that the herbaceous peonies (Paeonia lactiflora) were emerging and I remarked on Facebook that they resembled hands reaching to the sky.
But when I saw this at the base of my tree peony, I wasn't happy at all:
Tree peonies (Paeonia suffruticosa) are generally grafted onto a P. Show More Summary
Wordless Wednesday: 'Coors'
Greigii tulip 'Coors'
What's That Smell?
Skunks are plentiful around here. Especially in spring. You know the old saying, "It must be spring - there are dead skunks on the road." We see them year round, almost always at night, which makes sense, since they're nocturnal creatures.
I...Show More Summary