Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

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Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

How to Use Fall Leaves in Garden

November 1, 2011
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Autumn leaves aren’t just beautiful, they also are a valuable resource for your garden. So before you start raking up your fall leaves and throwing them out, consider these gardening tips on how to use fall leaves in garden.  All photos copyright Teresa O’Connor.

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Strange Halloween Facts and Folklore

October 24, 2011
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Halloween has many old, strange traditions that you probably didn’t know.  Take a trip back in time to hear about some of the fascinating folklore, illustrated with vintage Halloween postcards, courtesy of riptheskull on flickr.

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A Tribute to Fall Leaves

October 20, 2011
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Colorful fall leaves in red, orange and yellow have long been considered a beloved symbol of autumn. Learn why autumn leaves change colors, and celebrate this beautiful natural process that occurs each year in much of the United States. All photos copyright Teresa O’Connor.

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Living Walls for Small Spaces – Urban Gardens Guest Post

October 17, 2011
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Guest Post: Grow living walls in your home – no matter how small that home may be – with tips in this guest post from Robin Horton of Urban Gardens. It’s the second blog exchange between Urban Gardens and Seasonal Wisdom, exploring the latest in gardening, green living and design. Photo by Minigarden.

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Grow: Different Tomato and Eggplant Varieties

October 13, 2011
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Looking for interesting tomato and eggplant varieties to grow? Well, as you can see from the above photo, we’re harvesting many different tomatoes, eggplants and peppers around here. This blog post shares photos and information about unusual tomatoes and eggplants to try in your garden. Come take a look… Photo copyright Teresa O’Connor.

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Recipe for Seasonal Wisdom’s Calendula-Orange Biscuits

October 3, 2011
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Cheerful calendula flowers have been featured in culinary dishes of all types, since at least the Middle Ages.  In my own fall garden, these cool-season annuals are thriving now. So, I created a yummy biscuit recipe that makes the most of these colorful petals and fresh flavors. Come take a peek and learn more about […]

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Harvesting and Preserving Herbs

September 28, 2011
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There is “much virtue in herbs, little in men,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard’s Almanac during the 18th century. More than 200 years later, herbs are still wildly popular in the garden and kitchen. As for the virtue in men . . .  I’ll let you all decide about that. Here are helpful resources to […]

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Sharing Garden Surplus with Those In Need

September 21, 2011
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Sharing garden surplus with those in need is easier than you may think. The summer of 2011 left us with a terrific harvest. My garden was swimming with fresh vegetables, herbs and edible flowers. We’ve eaten like kings. We’ve passed along produce to our neighbors and friends. So, we shared this garden surplus with those who […]

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New Proven Winner Plants

September 15, 2011
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Each summer, my garden literally bursts into blooms from a wide variety of annuals and perennials. This year was no different. In fact, I was asked by Proven Winners to review a number of their newest plants for my USDA Zone 6b garden over the last few months. Here are a few of my favorites. Photo copyright Teresa […]

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Growing Poppies in The Garden

August 25, 2011
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Poppies are easy to love. The flowers mix beautifully with roses, lavenders and other perennials, and provide a romantic, carefree look to any garden. Best of all, poppies are easy to grow from seeds, and many of them reseed to provide beauty year after year. The above pink ‘Shirley’ poppies (right) and orange ‘California’ poppies […]

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