spring garden clean-up

What Do You Do With A Blue Hydrangea?

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There are some tunes that stick in your head, sometimes for weeks.  That happened to me recently with the old sea chantey, “What do we do with a drunken sailor?”  The song isn’t as common as it was a generation or two ago, possibly owing to its bawdy lyrics, but is still widely known.  The … Read more

Glorious Garden in Eight Hours

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Sometimes deadlines make you neurotic.  Other times, they help you get focused.  I am choosing the latter course, because I want a good-looking garden before Memorial Day.  The problem—for the past week wet weather and at least one blast of high wind have made the garden soggy, riddled with opportunistic weeds and full, once again, … Read more