Look Who I Meet At The Bowling Alley
Have you ever been somewhere where someone comes to you to say hello? You look at them and know you know them, but it takes a moment. That happened to me last week at the Mt. Airy Bowling Lanes!…
Maryland Weather, 6 Degrees To 70 In One Week
How about the weather we had last Friday and Saturday? Four Seasons in one week. I almost felt like I was in Florida! Going from 6 inches of snow and 6 degrees to no snow and 70 degrees! In one…
The Why Winter Garden Challenge. Join Me?
I love to read garden blogs; Marianne Willburn has one of the best. When I got her email this week, the title caught my attention. I started reading and laughing the whole time. But she has a point. Many of…
Longwood Gardens
Today, while scrolling on Facebook (no judgment, please), I came across these 4 beautiful photos of orchids. First, I thought oh wow, it is getting close to the time that the National Capital Orchid Society (NCOS) will have its Annual…
Watch Out For Black Ice
Winter Time in Maryland. The old joke is, “Only in Maryland can you experience all four seasons in one day!” For the first time in about two years, we were told to brace ourselves for the BIG one!! Little kids were…
What Is Your New Year’s Tradition?
What traditions do you have, if any, on New Year’s Day? For us, my husband’s grandfather always knocked on our door early in the morning on New Year’s Day. I will never forget forty-four years ago, Granddad Bowman knocking on…
African Violet Update
Rooting African Violets Last July, I wrote about how my granddaughter Zoe and I decided to try to root some African Violet leaves from my mother’s 50-plus-year-old plant. The one I had ended up with root rot. At the…
A Few Walnuts
Check out Stephanie’s father-in-law, Marshall Fleming as he gathers up all the Black Walnuts from the ground.
The Best Time For Planting Is Fall
Fall, some will say, is the best time of the year. I love Spring (saying goodbye to Winter is the best), but Fall has many appealing things to consider. Growing up surrounded by nurserymen, of course, I knew that…