Red Dirt Ramblings®

Garden Bloggers Fling: where do I begin?

Dee Nash — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:44:16 +0000

Do you ever have times when there is so much to say, you don’t know where to begin? After visiting Asheville and the Garden Bloggers Fling, I am without words. I could expound upon the food . . . . Okay, for a moment, I will. The gluten and dairy free food in Asheville rivals [...]

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in May: roses are red . . . and yellow too

Dee Nash — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:39:06 +0000

A few years ago, three probably, I began adding red roses to the spring symphony. I also added several yellow. I like red and yellow in the garden, and honestly, in roses, these two colors have become my favorites in our sunlight–with the exception of Pink Knockout®. I do love that hot pink of single [...]

Inspiration lies everywhere

Dee Nash — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:41:35 +0000

I travel to other gardens every time I get the chance, and there’s a method to my madness. At the first Garden2Blog, I came back with the inspiration to paint one of the arbors. Last spring, I noted Allen’s tuteurs in the borders were a lovely, soft green so this year, when faced with my [...]

Rose Rosette Disease and Oklahoma

Dee Nash — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:00:41 +0000

Last week, when I was at the second annual Garden2Blog, I asked Allen if he’s seen any Rose Rosette Disease in Little Rock. He knew immediately what I was talking about, and he said he hadn’t seen “witch’s broom,” the more common name for what is currently being classified as a rose virus. As we [...]

Win The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener by Niki Jabbour and Proven Winners plants

Dee Nash — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:07:59 +0000

One of my fellow Proven Winners Garden Gurus, Niki Jabbour has written the most fab book, The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live. If you want to extend your season and grow more food, I can heartily recommend Niki’s book. She shares her best [...]

Winner of the Fiskars PowerGear® tools and, now a contest for So Much Sky

Dee Nash — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:14:34 +0000

Hi everyone. According to the random number generator, Linda Belcher won the power tools. I’m excited for Linda, and I hope she enjoys her new tools. Now, I have another giveaway. So Much Sky, written my friend and former editor, Karen Weir-Jimerson, is a series of essays about living in the country, a topic near [...]

Bumble on Baptisia and other false indigos

Dee Nash — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:20:26 +0000

Caught this bumblebee taking in the sights and nectar of Baptisia sphaerocarpa in my garden. Nature never ceases to amaze me, but instead, wows me again and again. I grow several baptisias after seeing them grown so well in Chicago when I went there for the Garden Bloggers’ Fling in 2009. In my garden, it’s taken [...]

It’s beautiful ’round here

Dee Nash — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:32:14 +0000

Oh, how I wish you could visit this spring. We could stroll through my garden with clippers in hand, and I would cut you a bouquet. You would smell roses, peonies and iris, along with the heady, clove scent of the dianthus because I grow several kinds. Never have the roses been lovelier. Even a [...]

Fun Fiskars PowerGear® tool giveaway

Dee Nash — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:02:15 +0000

Of the Fiskars family of garden helpers, the PowerGear® tools are my favorites. When Fiskars gave me the opportunity to give away anything I wanted from the PowerGear® line, I chose the following: Item: 377363-1002, UltraBlade® PowerGear® Bypass Pruner; I don’t have these, but I’d enjoy them. Hint, hint Fiskars! Item 7937, PowerGear® Bypass Pruner; [...]

A cottage in the woods with roses for me?

Dee Nash — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:22:55 +0000

Once, I saved dish towels and aprons in a hope chest and fantasized about my future home. Nothing fancy. Instead, it was always a cottage adorned by fragrant, climbing roses. Not very original I know . . . . How many girls who read Regency romances don’t dream of a rose-covered cottage and picket fence [...]