Peonies!

Old-fashioned, cottage garden flowers and plants are my most favorite. And guess what is blooming? My peonies! They have beautiful, fragrant, pink, double flowers. Peonies are easy to grow if they are in the proper site.  They like full sun (at least in the early spring) and moist, but not wet, soil. After flowering, let the leaves and stalks grow until fall. They provide nutrients and energy for the plant, which is needed in order to flower the next year.

Happy St. Patrick's Day - Let's Get Started!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  What a great day to begin a blog about gardening because the traditional symbols of St. Patrick's Day are the color green and clovers!

Spring is here!  Gardeners everywhere have been waiting anxiously for spring - now it has arrived!  What can we plant?  Where can we plant it?  When can we get started?  Those are the questions gardeners are asking themselves.

The trees and shrubs are beginning to bud.  Crocuses are blooming.  The daffodils and tulips are poking their heads out of the ground.  We awake to the songs of birds.  Don't you love it?  Isn't spring wonderful?