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  • "It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day." Marion Cran
  • "When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness." Celia Thaxter
  • "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Cicero
  • "He who owns a garden, However small it be, Whose hands have planted in it Flower or bush or tree; He who watches patiently The growth from nurtured sod, Who thrills at newly opened bloom Is very close to God." Katherine Edelman
  • "Like a big mountain, a small garden stimulates, restores, and delights us, just as it poses challenges, promotes mastery, provides exercise and relieves monotony." Winifred Gallagher
  • "Though an old man I am but a young gardener." Thomas Jefferson
  • "A garden is never so good as it will be next year." Thomas Cooper
  • "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." Eizabeth Murray
  • "God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done." Author Unknown

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Additions to the Indoor Garden

Adventures in Pruning - Getting Salvia Ready for the Second Wave

Afternoon Glories

Always Something New

And Then There Were Three...

Anticipation

The Art of Impromptu Flower Arranging

Baby Chicks in the (Rosularia) Nest

Beautiful Indoor Additions

Beauty Comes in All Colors

The Beauty of Mulch

Beginnings & Endings

Better Late Than Never - 2007 Amaryllis

Brick Walkway Adds a Cottage Touch

Buds Appear on the Young Mum

Caterpillar Camouflage

Caterpillar "Li'l Dewd"

A Change is Gonna Come

Cherry Tomatoes On the Way

C.O.D. (Cuttings of the Day) Arrival

The Color Purple

Color Renegades

Color Theme Borders (and More) at Longwood Gardens

Colorful Coleus at Longwood Gardens

Cosmo Seeds Have Sprouted - Whew! That Was Fast

Cuttings of the Day - 07/10/08

A Different Garden Every Day

Double Impatiens in Charming Display

Eggshell Heralds a New Arrival

Fall Harvest from the Garden

Feeling Sluggish in the Garden

Felt Harvest on the Way?

First Flower of Spring

Foliage Gets Some Glory

Foliage Tie-Dye For

For the Birds

Four Stages of Liriope

Garden Journal Options

Garden on a Whim

Garden Whimsy - Indoors

Garden Whimsy Project

Geraniums Still Going Strong

Gladly Accepting the Unexpected

Gotcha!

"Grapes of Wrath" Take One - Action!

Green Thumb Sunday - 6/17/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 6/24/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 07/08/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 07/15/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 07/22/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 07/29/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 08/05/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 08/12/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 08/19/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 08/26/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 09/02/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 09/09/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 09/16/07

Green Thumb Sunday - 09/23/07

Guest Post on Mouse & Trowel

Happy Halloween!

Happy Labor Day!

Homes & Gardens in Victorian Cape May, NJ

Houseplant Predicament: What's Wrong With This Picture?

A Hydrangea Mystery

I Think We Have a Winner

I'm Just Visiting

In Bloom! 4/30/08

Indoor Garden Room

The Indoor Gardener (and I Don't Mean Houseplants)

Introducing "The Beast"

It Feels This Way Sometimes, Doesn't It?

The Joys of Perennial Expansion - Part 1

The Joys of Perennial Expansion - Part 2

The Joys of Perennial Expansion - Part 3

Kissed By the Morning Sun (Alternate Version)

The Last Rose of Summer

Lily Excitement

Listen! Cricket, Katydid or Cicada?

A Little Something About Me

Longwood Gardens - Pure Inspiration

Longwood Gardens Wish List

More Longwood Annuals

More Online Armchair Tours: Outdoor Rooms

More Wildflower Delights

Morning Glory Comes to Call

Morning Glory Comes to Call, Part 2 ("Uh-oh" Edition)

Mum's the Word

My Dream Shed... NOT!

New Additions from the Parking Lot Sale

New Gardening Accoutrements

Newbie - Gaura 'Pink Fountain'

Newbie - Lavender

Newbies - Boxwood, Sunflower & A Little Something Extra

Newbies - Tomato Plants & Gerbera Daisy

No Time-Lapse Photography Necessary

Not Done Yet

Note to Self: Post Photos Immediately!

Now a Member of...

Now Entering the Cosmo Forest

O Ye of Little Faith

Online Armchair Garden Tours

An Outing Featuring Shop Gardens (Rather than Garden Shops)

Overview & Evaluation 07/07: The Rose Garden

Overview & Evaluation 08/07: Left Front Border

Overview & Evaluation 08/07: Right Front Border

Overview & Evaluation 08/07: Side Border

Overview & Evaluation 09/07: Entrances & Containers

Overview & Evaluation 09/07: The "Garden-to-Be"

Parking Lot Sale at Ken's Gardens

Pink Irritation

Pink "Puff" Begonia

Plant Collage Idea

The Plant from Outer Space

Plant Swap - Part 1

Plant Swap - Part 2

Plant Swap - Part 3 (Front Borders)

Plant Swap - Part 4 (Entryway)

Plant Swap - Part 5 (Side Border)

Plant Swap - Part 6 (Garden-to-Be)

Plant Swap - Part 7 (The Final Touch)

Plant Swap - Epilogue

Plant Swap Update - One Month Later

Profusion of Color

Progress Report on Salvia 'Victoria Blue'

Purple Shrub Mystery Solved

Quick Cosmo Update

A Radical (and Successful) New Gardening Technique

Recommended Resource - Plant Tags, Part Two

Recommended Resource - Reading Plant Tags

Re-potting SOS

Rhodie Blossom

Rose Garden Project

Rosebud? Or Geranium?

A Salvia Bud Appears

Season of Eternal Youth

Seven Random Things About Me

Signs of Life

Simple Acts of Faithfulness

Simple Pleasures - Azalea Blossom

Simple Pleasures - Black-Eyed Susan

Simple Pleasures - Colors of Autumn Joy

Simple Pleasures - Coneflower Blossom

Simple Pleasures - Cosmo

Simple Pleasures - Dianthus 'Cheddar Pink'

Simple Pleasures - Dusty Rose Hydrangea

Simple Pleasures - First Coreopsis Flower

Simple Pleasures - First Daylily Bloom

Simple Pleasures - Fringe of Bleeding Hearts

Simple Pleasures - Gaura Blossom

Simple Pleasures - Hosta Blooms

Simple Pleasures - Hydrangea Bloom

Simple Pleasures - Kissed by the Morning Sun

Simple Pleasures - Lily Bloom

Simple Pleasures - Mint Tea

Simple Pleasures - Mountain Pinks

Simple Pleasures - Rose Campion Blossom

Simple Pleasures - Portulaca Blossom

Simple Pleasures - Purple Coneflower

Simple Pleasures - Rhodie in Bloom

Simple Pleasures - Rieger Begonia Blossom

Simple Pleasures - Rose Campion Blossom

Simple Pleasures - Rose Trio

Simple Pleasures - Safari Bolero Marigold

Simple Pleasures - Safari Yellow Marigold

Simple Pleasures - Sedum 'Autumn Joy'

Simple Pleasures - Spiderwort Blossom

Simple Pleasures - Star Rose

Simple Pleasures - Thirsty Sedum

Simple Pleasures - Three for the Fourth

Simple Pleasures - Violas

Simple Pleasures - White Cosmo

Simple Pleasures - White Rose

Small Flowers, Big Impact

Small Treasures

Some Before & Afters

Sometimes Subtraction Adds Value

Spring Fever

Squirrels!

Stunning Sights at Longwood Gardens

Succulent Settling in Nicely

Surviving the Squirrels

Taking Delight in the Details

They're Seedlings, Not Snacks

This is a Test

Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down - Salvia 'Victoria Blue'

Tiny Tomato Muscles in on the Competition

Tomato Lost, Tomatoes Found

Twin Beauties

The Understated Rose Garden

Update on the New Transplants

Warning: Not Beautiful! (Part 1)

Water Reflections

Weeding Lessons

Welcome Spring!

Welcome to My Garden!

White Rose in Bloom

Wildflower Garden Update

Wildflower Garden Update 2

A Word of Encouragement

Your Gardening Style

"Your Salad is Served"

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