Gardening
Discover A Simple Secret to Keep Yourself Mentally and Physically Healthy!
Reading the newspaper I was reading the Health and Fitness section in our Daily Herald Newspaper on Monday morning. The tile on the front page immediately caught my attention. “Get your hands dirty” The title of the article ” Getting your hands dirty” spoke to me. I grew up enjoying our gardens with my parents.…
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Plan, Prepare, and Protect = A Metaphor for Life
Cover and Care Yesterday, Jordan and I raked leaves in our backyard to cover and care for our tulips bulbs! Planting 100 Tulip Bulbs A few weeks ago, before the leaves turned and the autumn chill was in the air, I was thrilled to plant 100 tulip bulbs in our pollinator gardens. There were spaces…
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Brain Color Personalities and Garden Preparations for Winter
Winter Preparation Last weekend, my husband and I enjoyed a beautiful autumn day to prepare our home for the winter season. Yearly Ritual It is a yearly ritual that we empty all our flower pots and store all our summer garden decorations in our shed. We take out our winter decorations and the snow blower.…
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The Joy of Watching Our Grandchildern and Their Trees Grow & Change!
Trees for Our Grandchildren Almost 20 years ago, my husband and I decided to plant a tree for each of our grandchildren. Trees for Each Grandchild We planted an Ash tree for our eldest grandson, 18 yeas ago. We planted a Chanticleer Pear tree for our granddaughter, 15 years ago. We planted a Autumn Blaze…
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The Joy of Planting Two Colossal Pollinator Gardens!
UFOs Landed In Our Backyard We had to remove 2 dead trees from our backyard. For 2 years we could not decide what to plant in the 2 circular spaces where the Blue Spruce Fat Alberts had graced our back yard. The empty circles looked like 2 UFOs had landed in our backyard. Gardener One…
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Don’t Let the “Weeds” Ruin Your Garden and Your Relationships!
Spring Clean-up It’s Spring Clean-up in my yard and gardens. My Yellow Organized Brain has already begun feeding, water and nurturing my trees, shrubs and perennial flower beds. Amongst all the beauty of new growth are the fast growing dandilions, weeds, thistle, and unwanted grass, which grow everywhere I do not want them to grow. It is…
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Discover Wisdom and Poetry to Cultivate Your Garden for Daily Living!
It have found it difficult to find comfort and peace in my heart and brain during this turbulent time in our country. The way for me to remain healthy and deal with those feeling is to tend my gardens by planting new flowers, transplanting and dividing old plants, diffing up weeds, watering, and feeding all…
Read moreWhen life is challenging, should you remain where you were originally planted or move and be transplanted?
Last year my Blue Gardner’s Brain transplanted over 100 iris bulbs. I had decided to remove the garden in which they were planted. My Green Brain was exhausted from trying different remedies to keep the deer from eating the other perennial flowers in the garden, even the ones that were supposedly, “Deer Resistant.” The trees…
Read moreHow Would You Feel If You Were Uprooted and Transplanted?
A gardener will tell you that working in the dirt is soothing to the soul. As I wrote in my April 30th blog post, I decided to edit my garden to increase my pleasure and and decrease the stress from the plant eating deer! Today, I finally completed all the editing chores on my Yellow…
Read moreWeed Your Own Garden & Relationships
It’s Spring Clean-up in my yard and gardens. My Yellow Organized Brain has already begun feeding, water and nurturing my trees, shrubs and perennial flower beds. Amongst all the beauty of new growth are the fast growing weeds, thistle and unwanted grass, which grow everywhere I don not want them to grow. It is amazing how they grow without any special…
Read moreDoes Your Personality Change with the Weather?
My Brain Color Personality definitely changes with the weather! Now, that we are having an early Spring, my Yellow Winter Brain that wanted checked everything off my To-Do List during the cold weather has quickly changed with the warm and sunny weather. My Blue Garden’s Brain has taken over my personality. I want to be outside enjoying the sunshine and…
Read moreGarden Tending, Preparing and Protecting for Winter
All weekend, my husband and I prepared and protected our yard and gardens for the gifts of winter. It was so chilly in Chicago that I wore my heavy alpaca socks, a wool sweater over my overalls and my fleece baseball cap that has ear flaps. We prepared our perennial gardens by removing all the ornaments and…
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