Flowers for our friends
Mama and I are beyond exhausted from our recent garage cleaning and cheese adventures. All day I’ve just felt ragged and depleted. I needed a way to improve my mood […]
Cutting our own bouquet
We grew these gorgeous zinnias from seeds! How incredible! And today we had enough flowers to cut a bouquet without decimating the garden. Today’s #OneGoodThing with Mama is cutting our […]
Visiting the Bachelor Buttons
We’re growing these cute little Bachelor Button flowers from seeds this year. We’ve never planted these delicate, periwinkle-colored blooms before but found an old packet of seeds to try. They’re […]
Flowers surviving winter
Nearly all of our garden died off this past winter, even the plants that were supposed to make it. But we discovered these cute little coral red petunias lasted through […]
Four-way Amaryllis
Our little winter garden is in full bloom right now with four beautiful white Amaryllis flowers on one stalk. This is the most we’ve ever seen at once—and there are […]
Surprise indoor bloom
While cleaning today, I went to toss out some dying flowers on our mantle. Amongst the wilting zinnias, I discovered this gorgeous Morning Glory that had suddenly flowered! Today’s #OneGoodThing […]
Pre-storm harvesting
Despite nearly 90-degree weather yesterday, it’s raining and about 25-degrees colder today. Before the turn in weather could affect our garden, I did a quick harvesting of these beautiful flowers, […]
Picking Zinnias with Benny
After yesterday’s treatment, I needed a pick-me-up so I ventured into our garden with Benny just before dark. We walked around looking at everything growing and breathing in the fresh, […]
Making the good in the day
This evening I realized that today had passed in a blur of stress and pain and that I had nothing good in the day to share. I turned to mama […]
Why I garden
Besides the purpose of growing food and herbs, I garden for my mental health. But mostly I garden for Mama. Early in my caregiving role, a friend told me about […]
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