Friday, March 12, 2010

title pic What’s your favorite houseplant?

Posted by Sarah O. on February 16, 2010

Someone recently asked about the best place to buy houseplants, and the easiest to grow, and I started wondering what your favorite houseplants were.
My Thanksgiving cactus is my favorite.
I love it, it’s beautiful, and it doesn’t take a lot of work to keep alive.
I bought it at a craft show for local churches for $5.
It [...]

title pic Ahh, snow

Posted by Sarah O. on February 9, 2010

The dogs are loving the snow – they don’t have to jump the fence to get into the garden any more, they can walk right over it!
The fence is only about 3 feet hight, but the snow is within an inch of the top in some places.
All of the smaller trees are completely covered, [...]

title pic The seed catalogs are here

Posted by Sarah O. on December 30, 2009

The seed catalogs are here – it’s so much fun to look, but at the same time, since we had a bad garden year last year due to me being pregnant and not feeling like doing anything, and I can’t forget that I probably started the seeds inside to early, then neglected them so that [...]

title pic Winter Blooms

Posted by Sarah O. on December 8, 2009

It’s cold and dreary – and getting dark even though it’s only 4 pm, but it’s nice to have some winter blooms in the house.
My Lipstick Mona Lisa is the only thing blooming now – the Thanksgiving Cactus blooms have come and gone.
I think I overwatered it after I realized it was blooming, [...]

title pic Dahlias

Posted by Sarah O. on September 30, 2009

How can this not make you smile?