Monthly Archives: December 2009

WE HAVE A WINNER. ACTUALLY, WE HAVE 5

Awwwww shucks. EveryONE’s a winner! It’s been a joy to read these Why I Garden essays during the cold and dark of winter. Your passion, my gardening friends/fiends, is delicious. I enlisted the helpful eyes and minds of May Dreams … Continue reading

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Red, Green and Blue for David Perry

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Reading the Essays

Thank you each and everyone for taking the time out of your busy busy lives to write your essays re: Why I Garden. Three of us are now reading through them carefully, thoughtfully and trying to come up with a … Continue reading

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Why I Garden essay contest

Hey all, the Why I Garden essay contest goes until midnight tonight! Get your essays in. We will read them tomorrow and announce the winners tomorrow evening! Thanks for taking the time to put your passion into words. Happy Holidays. … Continue reading

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Why I garden contest

Friends, fellows, countrymen and gardeners listen up: The essay contest, WHY I GARDEN will Officially end at midnight on Sunday night, December 21st, the Winter Solstice. Grand Prize is a $100 gift certificate to the garden center of your choice. … Continue reading

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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, December ’09

Sure, you say, what exactly do you have blooming in Idaho in December? Well, I had to scramble to come up with some offerings. But scramble I did and here you have it: A tempest in a tea pot: hand … Continue reading

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Anthropologie rocks!

(file this under stuff kind of related to gardening) I love this store. Love it. Anthropologie. It is so beautifully merchandised, with beautiful merchandise, groovy merchandise, the hip stuff, bitchin music (Be Good Tanyas doing Prince’s When the Doves Cry), … Continue reading

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Poinsettias: Good, bad and really ugly or Crimes against nature

It’s like computer hacking.Of non-profit websites and the like. I guess people do it because they can. Well, I hope Mother Nature bites who ever did this. I really do. And glitter? I mean really. I think life is too … Continue reading

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