If you are in the habit of reading interior design magazines, you may have seen articles written about dopamine décor and serotonin style. Both these terms have become hot topics for home decorating in 2023 because these styles help to create home environments which enhance “feel good” hormones, such as dopamine and serotonin.
In the news today I read with amusement an article titled Chaos Gardening. Supposedly, chaos gardening is the gardening world’s newest craze and a video about it has taken Tik Tok by storm. Even the 2023 Royal Horticultural Society has jumped on board by including an example of it in the annual Chelsea Flower Show.
This morning when I sat down at the computer to write my next post, I had every intention of writing about feeding (fertilizing) our beloved plants in our gardens. However, I was easily distracted by the playful fluttering of Monarch butterflies...
It's almost mid - July and the early summer perennials are bursting with beautiful colors and intoxicating fragrances. Here are a few photos I took from my garden...Hope they make you smile.
Apparently, thanks to the goofy squirrels and chipmunks who bury their nuts and the birds who drop or spill them onto the ground as they fly away, I am now growing approximately 3 dozen - and counting - peanut bushes.
The genus Paeonia contains more than 30 species and hundreds of different varieties, many of which have been cultivated for thousands of years, primarily originating from China or Japan.
You know spring has arrived when you begin to see tulips, daffodils, and the fragrant blossoms of flowering shrubs. Not only do spring flowers offer eye-catching beauty, but they also provide protection and homes for nesting birds and pollen and nectar for bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects.
Depending on one’s age, physical health status, and intensity of activity, working in the garden is an excellent source of moderate to vigorous physical activity.
Spring has finally arrived, and I am so excited. For the better part of a month, a litany of endless meetings and tight deadlines have kept me away from the garden and unable to find time to write for this blog.
Today, I’ll discuss how plants communicate with each other – and boy, do they have a lot to say. Naturally, plants don’t “talk” to each other in the same manner as humans do, but they nevertheless actively communicate with each other in a variety of ways. How?
