Barbie’s Garden
Country living is the best! Being a true spirit of the earth, my garden is all about vegetables and fruit trees and herbs and chickens roaming free. I was keen to really start gardening when we moved to Philadelphia in 2005, but not your typical suburban-type garden – sterile and bug-free! I wanted an edible garden. Read more about this garden by following blog posts here … Barbie’s Garden
Christine’s Garden
Dominated by large trees on a medium sized property, my garden is very shaded. With no “full sun” areas I have to plant shade and partial shade loving plants. I love shrubs and flowers including Camellias and Azaleas but Roses and Irises are my favourite and getting these to thrive is a challenge … Read more about this garden by following blog posts here … Christine’s Garden
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Latest Posts
May 23 2013
Autumn colours
I was inspired today!! I looked out of my window this morning and the recent fresh rains brought out such beautiful Autumn colours! So I took my camera and explored the wet garden. I found the most interesting perspectives and saw my garden in a different light! Lots of colour that I thought I had lost… Sweet yarrow flowers are a favourite of mine. The gorgeous Ice Cream bush [...]
May 17 2013
Garden Bloggers Harvest Day in May
This post is late in coming, but I wanted to save face and let you know that there is something I can harvest from my modest veggie patch. I have not put any effort into the garden this month and yet it still produces happily. I know I promised last month that I would toil and sow seeds, but alas! I might as well have gone fishing!! That’s how much [...]
My own Compost
Since I have started my organic gardening craze and the blog as well, I have [...]
What’s growing in my backyard
After a week of work committments, my head has hardly moved away from the computer. [...]
Barred Rock rocks the Hen House
All I can say is that we have had some really sad days in the [...]
The Gardening Blog in the News!
I was so excited when Christine told me that “We are in the Fair Lady [...]
Mid-Autumn in Two Gardens for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
The weather is changing and so has the gardening energy. The tempo has died down [...]
Garden Bloggers non-Harvest Day in April
Sorry my Harvest Friends!! I have been so preoccupied with other things taking up my [...]