I have a confession to make… Sometimes I am a lazy gardener. Are you shocked? Will this revelation cause you to stop reading my blog? In my defense, I must say that life gets rather busy and at the end of a long day, I forgo the opportunity to do some needed garden maintenance. […]
Last Friday, my mother came over for dinner and brought with a box full of sweet, tart goodness… Plums harvest Don’t these plums look delicious? There is a single plum tree on the family farm that is incredibly prolific. Plums harvest Every year, I look forward to making jam ever since my mother taught me […]
Can you tell what is wrong with this Mesquite tree? This tree has mistletoe growing in it. Can you see it? It is hard to spot mistletoe when it first infects a tree. I can spot it right away, but it takes some time to recognize it when it is small. Here is a closer […]
I must confess that I am not particularly inspired to write a garden blog post. The reason for this is that my son, Kai, has been recovering from surgery. Hip Surgery Kai was born with a condition known as arthrogryposis, which affects some of his joints. He was born with a dislocated left hip, […]
Downtown Chicago is a very beautiful place with its architecture and the river flowing through it. However, most of my attention was focused on the green spaces. How much can we see in 2 1/2 hours of walking? My husband and I found ourselves with a few hours to kill before flying home after seeing […]
This past Memorial Day, my mother had the entire family (minus my daughter, Rachele, who is in the Navy) over for brunch to celebrate the beginning of summer. As we drove up to the farm, we were greeted by the following sight… My nephews along with my son, Kai, were selling lemonade made from the […]
Some of you may have been following along as I have updated you on my daughter, Rachele’s, journey as she joined the Navy. For those of you who are only interested in gardening content, here is a container of violas that we saw at the Art Institute of Chicago. This will be the only gardening […]
Last week, as I was frantically rushing around getting ready to fly out to Chicago to attend my daughter’s Navy graduation, I received an email from a reader of my blog, which literally stopped me in my tracks and brought a huge smile to my face. When you blog, it is almost always a one-way […]
If you have been following along with my last couple of posts (Part 1 and Part 2), then you know that I have been showing some of the highlights of this year’s Arcadia Edible Garden Tour. Well, here is the last installment, showing some of our favorite highlights from the last few gardens we toured. […]
Earlier this week, I shared with you the first garden on the Arcadia Edible Tour. It was just wonderful to see the Sweet Life Garden in person. However, we had to tear ourselves away from the first garden because there were more to see… We stopped by Larry’s “Living the Dream Micro Farm”. Like […]
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