(actually by Cindy Briggs, Ryan is just the blog poster!) I never quite, really remember the exact blue of my favorite iris, so each spring, when she first blooms, I am as surprised by her luminous beauty as I was …
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Have you seen the garden at the Civic Garden Center along Reading Road with the tall sunflowers? Below the sunflowers is a cutting garden, but not the usual kind. Most cutting gardens these days are patches of long-stemmed annuals in …
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The plant tag says Echinacea Sombrero ‘Sandy Yellow’ will be 16 inches high, should be spaced 12 inches apart, will bloom from July-September, is well-branched, and has a compact habit. I already know deer don’t munch on Echinacea in my …
Read More »This morning’s rain, the big stuff, the blow-the-roof-off, turn-semi’s-over, strip-every-green-and-flowering-thing kind of rain is now in West Virginia and we just had a soft, leftover shower, the kind that doesn’t even show up on radar and the birds sing through. …
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“A garden offers, to those who accept it, a return to the touch-world of childhood.” – Allen Lacy in The Inviting Garden Sure, in the growing seasons, when gloveless hands work the soil, nestle fragile-rooted seedlings into warm soil, pick …
Read More »The Cincinnati Enquirer headline said “Study: Nature can be spur to creativity” (December 30, 2012, G6) and I thought, well no kidding. After shushing my inner cynic who wondered who got paid to study something so obvious, and thinking, this …
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Yesterday there was a snippet on NPR about school districts that paid students for every book they read. They found that the students did, in fact, read more books, but they chose shorter books. One of the researchers being interviewed …
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It is all about smells lately. The dab of new hand lotion that brought my Great Aunt Mae back to mind with her blue and white curtains, blue glass bottles on every windowsill, and a sort of violet/hyacinth/lily aroma that …
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by Michele Dragga, CGC Hoffman Library Committee The Hoffman Library has always had a collection of resource books for youth education available for teachers and parents looking for ideas for engaging children in nature or gardening activities. However, it’s had …
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There is a certain kind of tenderness that happens in gardens. Planting new Spring seedlings with fragile roots, seeing sunlight coming through Heavenly Blue morning glories, even spreading extra fine mulch under Love-in-a-Mist. Sure, there are those haul and hack …
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