Sometimes it’s best to take your critic’s glasses off and just enjoy something for what it is. Actually, most of the time it’s best to, I would say. It just makes life more enjoyable — and easier. This week I had the chance to check out a flashback to a simpler time and a celebration…
Category: Transplanted Northern Gardener
Organic Inspiration at Earthbound Farms
Inspiration is such a big part of being a gardener — seeking it out, providing it, experiencing it, absorbing it and igniting what you see in your own garden space. When you land in a space that you connect with, you just know it. You can feel it and you start to spin with ideas…
Transplanted Northern Gardener: When in Rome, Enjoy the Romans, but don’t take them home with you
Southern Florida is alive with hibiscus blooms of every imaginable jelly bean color. Now, in my own northern garden, I tend to stay true to the native or at least native-appearing plants. I’ve never been a fan of the outdoor palm placed next to the tiki bar in a Minnesota backyard. Now, a hibiscus almost…
The Transplanted Northern Gardener Series: The Impatiens Gardener
This Northern gardener is spending some time in Florida, researching the lively and fun use of impatiens and the foundation landscapes using what we northerners think of as houseplants. Impatiens (Latin for impatient) could be the state flower of Florida. Impatiens love water. I mean they LOVE it. They must have it. Or they die….
Garden Drama 