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The Garden: An Inspiration

By Margo, on June 13th, 2010%

Those of you who know me through my writing know that I love gardening.  This love of gardening comes partly from my historic/geographic gene pool – I’m a Brit and we’re almost all gardening mad!  The other part is still  from my gene pool but from a more intimate and personal section – the family.  Both my parents loved the garden, but my Dad had an absolute passion for his garden.

I’m not a very organized gardener as I’ve already mentioned in other postings.  I’m not a very organized anything because I’m a real “fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kinda gal”.  My garden is . . . → Read More: The Garden: An Inspiration

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Self Nurturing: The Garden – Remodeled!

By Margo, on April 4th, 2010%

Finally the sun has deigned to grace us with his presence, his light, and his warmth down here in (normally!) sunny Florida.  The biting cold, the frosts, and miserable grey are hopefully a thing of the past.  And not a day too late; my garden Muse was absolutely itching to get to work because I had major projects to accomplish!

This year I decided to shake things up a little in my garden.  The St. Francis flower bed, so named because his statue oversees this part of the garden, had developed a deep-rooted weed system which was hard to control.  . . . → Read More: Self Nurturing: The Garden – Remodeled!

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Vignettes: My Kingdom

By Margo, on September 2nd, 2009%

Dad’s back yard was his pride and joy.  Actually, his whole garden was good reason for him to be proud.  I’m referring now to the garden of the prefab house that I associate with my young childhood – age five through eleven years.

There was a concrete walkway that crossed the full width of the back of the house.  This was then bordered by a tall trellis fence with an archway set midway.  Both the fence and the archway were painted white and were covered by thickly growing rambling roses.  The delicate perfume of these roses when they were in . . . → Read More: Vignettes: My Kingdom

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