It’s been a while since I’ve shared a garden update. Join for a stroll with me around the Potting Shed. Make sure to grab something cold to drink, it’s hot outside! Like most of the country, July has been a hot and steamy month in North Carolina! While other garden flowers are fading and struggling…
Happy Monday! Instead of Christmas in July, I’m having some rib-tickling Halloween in July fun with some gardening help from the skeleton crew! Long time readers know I love Halloween but if Halloween isn’t your cup of tea, I apologize in advance. <|;>) Rod and Rowena are the skeleton crew at Hawthorne Gardens. They…
Thank you to everyone for your encouraging words about my photoshopped Potting Shed in the fall issue of Country Gardens Magazine. To use a boating analogy, seeing my shed and work in the magazine without any recognition, and on the cover no less, took the wind right out of my sails. Your support and kind comments…
I’m chalking up a little garden inspiration and words of wisdom on my Potting Shed door. . . Note to self: “The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” ~ Mark Nepo Bees are buzzing around the Passion Flower Vine. . . The Allium. . . They’re buzzing around the…
Happy Monday, I hope you had a good weekend! Ours was a hot one with a few early morning garden chores. July is a maintenance month in the garden. . . watering, weeding, deadheading and fertilizing. I’m dashing out the door to water and weed in the early morning hours before rushing back inside to…