Have you ever wanted to grow the sweetest cherry tomatoes? Since my granddaughter loves all tomatoes and enjoys picking cherry tomatoes best I became excited about growing the sweetest cherry tomatoes I could find. Last winter, I also fell in love with Sugar Bombs, those extra sweet cherry tomatoes you can buy at certain times […]

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I see you laughing at this title, but a zinnia plan is what it will take to incorporate so many different varieties in my garden this year. I have 32 packets of seeds. Some hold zinnia blends, but still, you could ask… Why so many zinnias? Last summer, I was overcome by the new varieties […]

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It’s that time of year when gardeners start to dream through seed catalogs and troll websites, buying and later organizing new seeds. All this shopping is like being a little kid at a dessert buffet. Once the packages start to arrive, I’ll need to organize my bounty. New Year dreaming. Each year, I write about […]

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In December, we planted two trees of hope where the horse barn stood before March 2023’s wildfire. Since we don’t have horses anymore, we decided to plant two maple trees in this spot where we can see them from inside the house and outside too. We chose red maples because red is not a color […]

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If you search perennial gardening in Oklahoma this time of year, you might want to know what flowers in fall. Well, here I am, your ever-helpful guide. I’ll be glad to share which plants flower in my fall garden. Native and non-native asters flower in fall. Asters make garden magic in fall, but they do […]

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Hello!! I’m here for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day today! Not a day late. Not a day early, but on time. I know. It never happens. I planted a lot of perennials this morning, and I met with four garden coaching clients this week, so let’s get going before I’m too tired to post. Click on […]

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Wave® Gardening asked me to write about my experience growing Wave® petunias this summer. My husband, Bill, loves petunias so I always incorporate several varieties in my containers and elsewhere in the garden.

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Remember my cut flower garden plans last spring? I thought I would give you a cut flower garden update in the middle of the hottest week in Oklahoma this summer. Gardening is hot sweaty work. Why? Because we all need to see that gardening isn’t all rainbows, filmy dresses and unicorns. It is hot, sweaty, […]

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It’s August, and it’s hot outside. The weather has been in the 100s for three weeks straight, but good news is on the horizon. A couple of cold fronts are going to barrel into Oklahoma and reduce our temperatures to the 90s. Whoopee! In fact, one came through this morning, and it made things less […]

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We opened our garden a week ago Saturday, and people had lots of garden questions. I figured my internet friends do too. And I have answers. A special thanks to everyone who came out. We enjoyed the visit. We put a lot of love and work into the garden, and it’s nice to share it. […]

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Have you ever had a color crush? I know I have. Some years it’s using complementary colors on the color wheel, like purple and gold (my high school colors, actually), or purple and orange. Zowie! Complementary color combinations give you action in the garden and create tension. The best kind of tension I think. Here’s […]

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While these flowers aren’t true ephemeral spring beauties in that they don’t bloom and then go underground for summer, they don’t last long, either. Because we had a very long, cool, wet, and verdant spring, I’m getting better flowers out of all the plants that are somewhat to very difficult to grow in my climate. […]

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My roses have never been better than this year. In fact, this May, everything’s coming up roses in my back garden and in containers throughout my entire landscape. Growing roses isn’t easy, but it’s definitely worth it. After the wildfire, it seems as though Mother Nature is trying to be gracious and kind to me. […]

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In my garden, this is the year of the salvia. I deem it so. Why the year of the salvia? Two reasons: So many new varieties are on the market, and they are so easy to grow in Oklahoma. That’s why I’ve written about salvias before in three salvias to salivate over and the bold […]

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Some of you may not know that my neighborhood, home, and garden were part of the Simpson wildfire in Logan County, Oklahoma, a little over a week ago. I’ve hesitated writing about it because, honestly, it’s still so fresh, but I want a record of what happened. My home was spared. In less than 20 […]

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Bill and I went on a little trip a couple of weeks ago. We were on the lookout for Texas wildflowers, bluebonnets in particular. And, did we ever find them!! To get the timing right, I’m a member of several Texas wildflower groups. I follow the Texas Wildflower Report on Facebook, and the projections for […]

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This week I’ve had a lot of questions from my garden coaching clients about containers and what to grow, so I thought I’d share a little container gardening tutorial. I’ve also written about container gardening before. We’ve also discussed container gardening on the Gardenangelists podcast. If you read and listen to these and want individual […]

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Oh my goodness, the new zinnia varieties this year! Anyone who listens to my podcast, The Gardenangelists, with Carol Michel knows I love zinnias; this, my friends, is the year to grow them. Zinnias are one of ten easy flowers to grow in Oklahoma. Of course, that’s just my opinion, but since you’re here, you […]

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When I first saw Marianne Willburn’s excellent post, A Defense of Hellebores, on Garden Rant, I thought, we’re now defending hellebores? Surely not. Who wouldn’t love these perennials, some of which flower in December, Christmas roses, H. niger, and others that continue on through much of spring, Lenten roses, H. x hybridus? A shade perennial […]

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Elephant ears make my summer garden shine, so I immediately said yes when Dutch Grown Bulbs asked me to collaborate with them on summer bulbs. Dr. John Cho elephant ear varieties As longtime readers know, I don’t do that many collaborative posts, but I wanted to share the newer elephant ears now on the market, […]

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Starting Seeds is easy with a seed-starting station. First, obtain the following items: Assembling the seed-starting station With my husband’s electrical assistance, we assembled the list above to build my seed-starting station. Adjustable shelves or adjustable lights are required because, as the seeds sprout and grow, you will need to move them further away from […]

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It’s a new year, which means I’m thinking about new garden plans. I also ordered new flower seeds. I thought sharing my new garden plans, and seed orders might be helpful. It’s also a good record for me, which is how this blog started out 16 years ago. Can you believe I’ve been writing this […]

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Starting in December, seed catalogs begin to arrive. By January, they arrive daily. Even though many companies have gone completely online, others like John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds send paper seed catalogs. I’m so glad they do. Like additional Christmas presents during the bleakest part of the year, seed catalogs start showing up about a […]

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I should carry around a sign stating “Will Work for Compost” for I do every autumn. Other than my labor, my compost is free because it’s from beautiful shredded leaves. Fall leaves fall everywhere. Leaves fall like snow in my garden. In fact, they start to fall just about the time we’re ready to plant […]

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While I’m out planting the bulbs this Sunday afternoon, I’ll also be thinking about beans and greens and whether I want to start any beans on top of the stove or in the crockpot. I’m trying to insert more beans and greens into my diet, and it’s becoming fairly easy. This is to help reduce […]

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This week I’m planting the bulbs in two garden spots. In keeping with ten ways to enjoy your garden more, I’m planting the bulbs where I can see them from the front door and in the garden border outside the kitchen where I write and record the Gardenangelists podcast with Carol Michel. I did an […]

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Yes, I know we’re all exhausted from the summer from hell in Oklahoma and Texas–or is that just me? But it’s time to start planning for next year’s dream garden. Trust me, it’s time, and who knows? Maybe next summer will be more seasonal. It was the summer before. Look how green my grass was […]

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Fall vibes is a hashtag used all over the internet. Cozy vibes is its pumpkin-scented counterpart. I don’t know why, but both of them make me laugh. Consider this my fall vibes garden edition, kinda like the various editions of Monopoly, my favorite being the discontinued garden one. Tired after a long, hot summer? Me […]

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October can be the most beautiful month in the garden, and that’s because it is full of fall favorites. I’ve been doing a few Instagram videos about my fall favorites this week, and I thought I’d follow up here on the blog with some of them too. This post is also part of October’s Garden […]

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Last Saturday, while planting pansies and violas for fall and cleaning up my front borders, I began to ponder ten ways to enjoy your garden more. I always get my best ideas in the garden. Don’t you? First, the bullet points. Plant things where you can see them coming and going. Consider building raised beds. […]

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A couple of weeks ago, Carol Michel, my podcast cohost, told me about a lecture from the Horticultural Research Institute in their tHRIve – WEB SERIES presented by Dr. Daniel Potter, a recently retired urban landscape entomologist from the University of Kentucky. Sadly, the video is no longer available, but we think the information is […]

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As usual, I’m a day late for September Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, but I have good reasons. I had garden coaching clients in Tulsa and Edmond this week. I was also on babysitting duty yesterday, and you know Little Bit comes even before flowers. Not much change Things haven’t changed that much since August GBBD, […]

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I’m in the middle of an early fall garden rescue. I have six garden problems, ‘er weeds, I’m trying to eradicate this fall. While I was traveling, temperatures around the world, including in my own state, soared, and my garden became a tangle of terrible tyrants. The plants you like may die in extreme temperatures, […]

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If you’re thinking about ordering fall bulbs, read on for what I’m planting this year. Fall bulbs make great spring flowers. Scilla siberica, so tiny and so true blue Scilla siberica ‘Spring Beauty‘, Siberian squill, flowers early and into the middle part of Spring. I grow them for my honey bees because, although tiny, the […]

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It’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: August 2022, which means it’s time to share what’s in flower in my Oklahoma garden. Some plants, like the Helenium autumnale, common sneezeweed, are just coming into flower while others, like Phlox paniculata, tall garden phlox, are hanging on. As always, click on images in the galleries to make them […]

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We returned from the daylily national convention a couple of weeks ago, and it’s been too hot in Oklahoma ever since. I think David Payne said yesterday that we’re at day 15 of consecutive days over 100°F. It was 104° again yesterday. We had a cold front come through last night with very little rain. […]

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For July’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, I want to share my visit to the daylily national convention. A region of the American Daylily Society puts on the AHS National Convention each year. Region 15 put on this year’s convention, which was held in Asheville, North Carolina. It was exciting because Bill and I had never […]

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As if it wasn’t already difficult to grow roses in Oklahoma, we are now battling Japanese beetles too. Normally, I don’t like to include words of war in my posts, but battling Japanese beetles is just that. War. Identifying Japanese beetles From the University of Illinois Extension: “Adult Japanese beetles are stocky and range from […]

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It’s time for the June flower parade which, of course, includes our favorite daylilies. There are lots of other flowers blooming, but, in June, the daylilies always steal the show. First up are the spiders and UF (Unusual Form) daylilies There will be more UF daylilies as the season goes on. Hydrangea ‘Annabelle’ In my […]

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One of the easiest ways to grow tomatoes and other vegetables is in pots. There’s freedom from worrying about soil conditions, watering, etc., when you grow tomatoes this way. You can grow both pole (indeterminate) and bush (determinate) tomatoes in pots. Which containers? Because I like using large containers to grow tomatoes, I chose fabric […]

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I’ve been getting a lot of requests from my garden-coaching clients and other friends for a late-April garden update. So, I thought I would brief everyone all at once about what is going on in my garden now. Seeds I’ve sown in the potager. My first garden update is in the potager. The seeds for […]

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One of the best ways to fill your garden with color is to grow summer flowers from seed. Growing flowers from seed is cheaper than buying plants, and you’ll also find a greater variety of flowers if you grow them yourself. This is a long post so grab a cup of coffee and buckle your […]

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With this morning’s bright sunshine and blue skies, I am overflowing with April garden thoughts. In fact, I’ve been thinking about this blog post for a couple of weeks ever since my blogging friend, Sonia, of Miss Bloomers, commented about working to enjoy spring on Facebook. What is it to delight in spring? Do gardeners […]

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How can you temporarily alleviate a case of spring fever if you’re tired of cloudy days, winter storms, and disgusted with Vladimir Putin? When world events make you blue. I can’t fix world events, but I sent money to Catholic Relief Services and World Central Kitchen. Everyone needs food and shelter. Like so many of […]

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Today, the weather outside is again frightful so I made roasted butternut squash soup and nutmeg muffins. These nutmeg muffins are my favorite hands down, and I’ve profiled them several times before. Here’s the gluten-free nutmeg muffin recipe. My favorite gluten-free flour I now use Cup4Cup gluten-free flour because it’s my preferred gluten-free white flour […]

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Bill and I went to the Vintage Tulsa Show on Saturday, and I found several lovely things including a redwork memorial quilt. We are big fans of antiquing, and our home reflects our passion for all things old and worn. When I unwrapped the red and white quilt at the show, I was pretty sure […]

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I wanted to write about snow days, a funeral, and food during the actual snowfall, but my internet went down. So, I’m writing today. First, things first. My mother died on January 27, 2022, due to complications from Covid-19. We planned her funeral for last Thursday, but then the snow started to fall, and it […]

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Since my amaryllis and paperwhites didn’t bloom for Christmas I’m now enjoying my indoor flower garden in January. This might be even better because the flowers don’t have to compete with the Christmas tree and other decorations. East and West sun Even though we live in a log cabin which can be kind of dark, […]

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I’m in my fifteenth year of writing this blog, and I hope you’re still interested in my new seeds for the new year. Carol and I are going to talk about our seed orders on the Gardenangelists next week, but if you want to listen to this week’s episode, it’s all about gardening stories. Now […]

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I know soup and beans have very little to do with gardening, but with the cooler weather, I am soup and bean obsessed. Yes, it’s warm and horribly windy in Oklahoma today, but that’s because a cold front is trying its best to shove warm Gulf air out of our fair state. The cold air […]

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Ever since we returned from Portugal last month, I’ve been swamped. December is a busy garden time of year. November is pretty busy too with Thanksgiving and such. Then, I caught a cold, and I’m finally recovered. Although my garden may not seem busy in December, it really is. Spring-blooming bulbs need to be planted […]

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The cuttings and tropical plants I want to save are all tucked into the greenhouse for winter. The cuttings will root and continue to grow until they lose the light. After the winter solstice, the plants will patiently wait as the days lengthen to grow again. It’s a cool process to watch each year. I […]

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In the middle of October, my fall garden puts on its late, late show. Pearly heath asters combine with pink roses for a beautiful crescendo. Japanese beetles that so devastated my roses are gone, and the roses responded with beautiful flowers due to cooler temperatures. As always, click on the photos in the galleries to […]

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Plant fall flowers and hot-weather tropical plants in fall colors like gold, orange and dark red. Yesterday, I spent most of the day outside bringing fall color to my front garden. Last week, I placed fall flowers in my containers by the front door and on the back deck. The back of my house faces […]

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September is the most beautiful month in my garden, with October a close second, and one of the reasons is all of the butterflies and moths. They capture my imagination and draw me out into the garden every day. This post is for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day hosted by Carol Michel each month. Thank you, […]

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Feed hummingbirds the easy way. Below are ten flowers to naturally attract hummingbirds to your Oklahoma yard. Hummingbirds remain a delightful part of the Oklahoma landscape until the females finally leave in October. Hummingbirds arrive in my garden in late March through early April, and my garden is ready for them. It isn’t difficult to […]

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At my Little Cedar Garden, it’s hot, hot, hot, but it’s also beautiful butterfly watching today. I returned home from an appointment and walked around the property looking for butterfly photo subjects. Butterflies and moths make me so happy, and my garden is all about them this time of year. I first saw a Red […]

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I guess I’m a generalist gardener. What does that mean? In my generalist garden, pollinators come first. No real gardening agenda except I want to help pollinators including butterflies, native bees and hoverflies, along with my honey bees. In fact, I’m speaking on pollinators at Bustani Plant Farm on September 10 and 11, 2021, at […]

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Daylily season may be nearly over, but my daylily sickness rages on. Every year, I do at least one post on the daylily magic that happens here each June. Daylily season is nearly over. Although we are past peak, there are a few late daylilies still flowering. I always know the season is winding down […]

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We learned several lessons from our open garden. Sit down with a cup of coffee or an iced tea because this post is a long one. Visitors see gardens differently which is cool. Does this garden tour make my garden look big? Several visitors to our open garden told me they couldn’t believe how large […]

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It’s the 15th of June, so that means it’s time for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. Special thanks to Carol Michel of May Dreams Garden who has hosted this meme now in its fifteenth season. It may be the longest-running garden meme there is, and it’s all about the bloom. So, what’s in bloom? In June […]

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Rain is again falling from the sky, so I have a rain-washed garden. My French door is open. Birds are singing, and my new windchime is gently swaying in the wind. It’s a nearly perfect spring day. In fact, when I was at my regular doctor’s appointment this morning, his nurse said she felt like […]

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In early spring before the full extent of plant destruction showed its ugly face, I placed an order of perennials to High Country Gardens, and it came two weeks ago. Would you like to know what I bought? Sure you would! Most of these are for the border extension in full sun. I want it […]

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Did covering plants work for the spring freeze? Last night, we had a hard freeze in central Oklahoma. It got down to 30° for several hours. It wasn’t 26°F, but it wasn’t good either. Bummer. We were having such a nice springtime too. Sometimes, I ignore my own good advice. Because the weather was so […]

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This post is for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, the one day each month where bloggers all share about our favorite flowers, the ones in bloom, that is. Carol Michel hosts this day each month from her May Dreams garden blog. Two posts in one week! What am I thinking? It’s like the good ‘ole blogging […]

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Spring is here in all its glory. That’s good news. Our spring freezes may be over. Let’s accentuate the positive because in many years we have a late spring freeze. Crapemyrtles and deodar cedars showing signs of life. As you can see from the photo, above, left, I cut my crapemyrtle trees and shrubs to […]

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Honestly, much of my spring garden looks like hell. My spring garden is a shadow of its former self. Remember the October ice storm? After cleaning up all the limbs and being without power for two weeks, two more snowstorms hit Oklahoma. The final February storm had an extended and intense cold period that did […]

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Lately, the weather in Oklahoma has never been more beautiful, but my friends, don’t be fooled by these fabulous temperatures and blue skies. It’s a false spring. False spring comes every year in February or March, and it flirts with gardeners like a sultry siren. It’s not time to sprint through the tulips, trowel in […]

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Gardening will break your heart, but each time, you fail, you learn something about yourself and the plants you’re trying to nurture. Gardening is tough. I know these are hard words, but it’s true. Everyone fails. Everyone makes mistakes. Even when you become an experienced plantswoman or plantsman, you will still fail. Get used to […]

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A quick post about my seed orders. I’m Dee, and I have a seed problem. Ordering seeds for flowers and vegetables I’m sharing what I ordered for you and for me. This is what happens when a freak buys seeds. I’ve grown some of these seeds before, and I put photos of several plants in […]

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Here’s a hint: terra firma What lies underneath Oklahoma’s flora and fauna is a complex network that we perhaps too simply call soil. Soil composition is more complicated than you think Soil composition isn’t simple at all. According to the National Conversation Resource Service, soil is “The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate […]

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For this month’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, I don’t have much blooming indoors, but since it’s snowing, I’ll share those photos too. Snow day! We’ve had snow twice this week! Almost unheard of in Oklahoma this early in the season. Seems we are getting all of Minnesota’s snow, and this storm will turn into a […]

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Planting bulbs indoors and outside. That’s what’s happening at our Little Cedar Garden the past few weeks. That and continued storm cleanup. We removed most of the large limbs that were hanging in the trees and got the largest limbs out of the back garden and front beds. There is still a lot of debris […]

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Although we still have limbs down in the back garden, and some still hanging in the trees, fall beauty remains. I always fall for fall. Just look at these photos of Hamamelis × intermedia ‘Arnold Promise’ and Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ in my front yard and back garden respectively. The witch-hazel sits between our front door and […]

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One week ago, Oklahoma was hit by a historically damaging ice storm. At one point, 388,000 Oklahomans were without power. Bear with me, this is a long post, but a lot of readers have been writing to me asking what’s going on. What I thought was a double whammy ice storm was actually a triple […]

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An ice storm double whammy hit Oklahoma starting on Monday morning at 5:00 a.m. The second wave of freezing rain came through last night. This ice storm is so devastating because Oklahoma’s trees still had most of their leaves. This year, winter arrived before fall moved on. I awoke to heavy limbs crashing all around […]

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This year, along with lavender, I tested several basils in the garden. Below are four basils worth growing in your southern garden. Two new culinary basils to tempt your palate There are at least two new culinary basils in the marketplace created not to bloom early. If you want to grow basil that is basically […]

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After my last post on pelargoniums, several people asked me how to take stem cuttings of favorite plants for the greenhouse or to grow indoors. First you need good light. Well, dear readers, I always endeavor to help so this is how I take stem cuttings from plants I want to overwinter in my greenhouse. […]

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Greenhouse gardening begins! The pelargoniums and my other plants are on the move into the greenhouse. I thought I would share my process with you as I move plants back indoors. Scented geraniums (pelargoniums) are fun to collect. While scented geraniums and zonal geraniums are fun to collect, they are tropical plants meaning they require […]

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Last weekend, Bill and I went to Tulsa for the Audubon Society’s fall garden tour that featured native plants. There were also four native plant vendors, so while we were there, I bought more native plants for the meadow. These included: Veronicastrum virginicum, culver root, Ratibida pinnata, gray-headed Coneflower, and Liatris elegans, elegant liatris. Speaking […]

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Sunday morning, I didn’t really feel like making gluten-free biscuits, but I decided to anyway because, last week, I harvested fifteen beautiful jars of honey from my three hives. This is my third year of beekeeping. Because we purposely grow clover and lots of other wildflowers, we have wildflower honey. Wildflower honey is one of […]

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Want to keep your garden blooming into fall? Here are seven easy steps to achieve a beautiful fall garden. After all, splendor in the fall garden begins in spring. 1. Look for plant holes in your landscape. Plant holes, everyone has them. It might be from a plant that died, or, maybe, a perennial didn’t […]

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This is the first season I’ve grown white Cuban buttercup, Turnera trioniflora. I planted it in a large container on my back deck as the spiller portion of the thriller, filler, and spiller planting technique. Flowers that open and close I love how white Cuban buttercup opens early in the morning as soon as the […]

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Not much seemed to be blooming, but I was wrong. Not much seemed to be blooming for this August Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, but there were more meadow flowers for pollinators than I first thought. All the usual suspects Many of Bloom Day’s usual suspects like tall garden phlox are in flower as the summer […]

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I’m in my third year beekeeping. This hobby has such a learning curve. Kinda like gardening when I first started except most plants don’t try to sting you. Stinging nettles and poison ivy don’t count. My first year I haven’t written a beekeeping post since my first season of beekeeping. In the first year, I […]

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In July and August, my summer garden waits for fall. We are in that in-between stage in the vegetable and perennial gardens. Phlox paniculata is starting to flower, and the daylily magic is over for the year. Asters and goldenrod are still growing for their late August performance. I’m seeing very few butterflies this summer. […]

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Green grows the meadow. And, yellow, red, orange, and purple for that matter. Just add water. I’m pleased to write that the meadow in the upper pasture is growing well now that we added water to the equation. We found the soil too dry to support the wildflowers. We run 30 minutes of irrigation five […]

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It isn’t easy to grow lavender in Oklahoma, but it is well worth it. Drainage is the biggest issue. Lavender, like many Mediterranean herbs, wants sharp drainage. As the hosts on BBC’s Gardeners’ World are always so fond of stating, lavender likes a “gritty compost.” Translated to American-speak, that means gritty potting soil. Growing lavender […]

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Every year I think my garden won’t have its usual daylily magic. Maybe it’s too dry, too cold, too hot, but each year, come June, the daylilies spring into action sending up large scapes covered in buds. Some people poo-poo growing daylilies, and I think that’s because they are so easy to grow in a […]

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Did you miss me? I’ve missed you in more ways than you know. It’s been a very long spring and we’re heading into a long, hot summer. Get that drip irrigation out and going as soon as possible. Oklahoma summers can be merciless in your garden. Does anyone even read blogs anymore? I know I’ve […]

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Peas, peas and more peas are the stars of this vegetable garden report. Lettuce was the star last week, but, alas, the lettuce turned bitter in the summer sun. Lettuce has a very short garden life in an Oklahoma spring. That’s because Oklahoma springs don’t often linger. Just as I wrote this sentence, the forecast […]

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We’re having a very rosy spring at Little Cedar Garden this year. In fact, as I walk down the pebbled paths in the back garden I’m struck by the scent and beauty. It’s enough to take your breath away. A few years ago, if you lived in Oklahoma or Texas, I would have cautioned you […]

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We are in the last week of April, and the vegetable garden is doing just fine thank you. In fact, it’s doing a little too fine. The spring crops are mostly up and thriving. ‘Black-seeded Simpson’ lettuce, ‘Grazion’ pelleted lettuce from Johnny’s Selected Seeds, a couple of mesclun seed mixes, beautiful Purple Moon kale from […]

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Good morning everyone. I see you’re searching for how to grow an Oklahoma summer vegetable garden. Good for you! Garden on my friends! But, wait. We have an entire week of stupid, low, morning temperatures, and you need consistent overnight lows in the 50s before you start sowing seeds or planting transplants to grow an […]

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It’s time for a spring garden update. Everything in the perennial garden is leafed out and ready to be frozen next week if temperatures go below 32°F. Last week, the forecasters were saying 28°. I just walked around my house and like Scarlett O’Hara, I paraphrased, “Fiddle-dee-dee, I’ll worry about that tomorrow. After all, tomorrow […]

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A couple of weeks ago, I got my 10,000 steps seeding and feeding the fescue lawn. The lawnette always looks pretty pitiful this time of year. How did I get 10,000 steps? I mixed Milorganite and grass seed in the walk-behind seed spreader and worked the lawnette in a crosshatch style. I walked one direction […]

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Hi Everyone! Because of the Coronavirus, we’ve all been told to stay home. I say, take it a step further. Let’s stay home and garden. Once you’ve been through your backlog of Netflix and Amazon Prime, you can read a book on rainy days, trawl the internet endlessly, or you can go outside.  If we […]

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One of the cheapest ways to garden in Oklahoma is to grow your own transplants from seed. Starting vegetable and flower seeds indoors isn’t as hard as you might think, and broken down into steps, the process is even more straightforward. Step One In the central part of Oklahoma, the transplant date for warm-weather crops […]

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This week’s Gardenangelists podcast is about garden inspiration and plantswomen. In the episode, Carol and I talk about dahlias and my gardening grandmother, Juanita. We also discuss Jennifer Jewell’s fabulous book, The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants. We felt like her book was so powerful we devoted […]

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I have always loved heart-shaped plants, and what could be better for Valentine’s Day? While I’m not one to snub red roses or flowers of any kind or color for that matter, I do love heart-shaped plants partly because plants are usually easy to grow and last longer. Carol Michel and I also talked about […]

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