We have another family of Carolina Wrens living in our kitchen window box! I wasn’t going to bombard you with photos (since I thoroughly documented the last family of wrens from eggs, to goofy looking chicks, to the day they left the nest), but yesterday they did something so bizarre that I had to get my camera. [...]
My impatiens were looking scraggly, so I replanted my window boxes today. At the garden shop I had so many winter flower options to choose from—pansies or more pansies. I don’t even like pansies! I think my pansy aversion stems from my hatred of the pansies in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. Tips on other annuals [...]
If you’re a flower hater don’t be mad, but I want to show you a few more of my spring blooms. I promise this will be my last flower post for a while (I can probably hold off for at least a few days). Just look how pretty my window boxes are! Unfortunately I didn’t [...]
Last spring I tried to grow herbs in the screened porch off the basement. They died. I think it was a combination of me forgetting to water them and them not receiving any sunlight, ever. This year I hung a window box outside the kitchen window and filled it with herbs (and a few begonias [...]