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]

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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]

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This Azalea Deserves An Encore – Win One, Plus More!

March 31, 2011
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In many regions of the United States, it’s hard to imagine spring without azaleas. Their vibrant colors shake off the winter blues in the garden, and get the growing season off to a great start.  Unfortunately, most azaleas bloom only in the spring, making them less ideal for other seasons. That’s why Encore Azaleas are getting applause. And […]

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Celebrate In Spring Fling Garden Giveaway

March 29, 2011
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It’s spring and the seeds of new beginnings are sprouting up everywhere … especially here at Seasonal Wisdom. As you can see, there are many new design changes here. That’s because I had the good sense to hire Fern Richardson of the award-winning Life on The Balcony blog to revamp my site. Together, we’ve worked to make it easier for you to […]

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Seven Spring Vegetables to Eat Now

March 25, 2011
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From artichokes and asparagus to spicy greens and sweet peas, there are plenty of things to love about spring vegetables. These spring vegetables help cleanse your system after months of heavy winter diets. Many of these foods have been shown to strengthen the liver, detoxify the body, protect against cancers, and put pep back into your step … so you’ll have […]

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Five Cool-Season Vegetables To Grow From Seed

March 14, 2011
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It’s easy to be amazed by the power of seeds. One tiny seed can grow to be an eight-foot flowering vine smothering a trellis in a single summer.  And many vegetables are easy to grow from seed too. For instance, these five cool-season vegetables can not only be sowed directly into the soil … but often prefer […]

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‘Paris Market’ Carrots are Round Delights

March 2, 2011
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Carrots (Daucus carota) are popular cool-season, root vegetables to grow in home gardens. But the longer varieties – which can grow up to 8 inches long – are hard to grow in heavy, clay soil conditions.

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Part IV – Charlotte Germane Shares Great Garden Books

February 17, 2011
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Books in the garden. Photo by spakattacks. After visiting Seattle, Toronto, Philadelphia and Nova Scotia, this multi-part series has landed in Nevada City, California to hear more about how great garden books inspire writers.

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Part III – Robin Haglund Shares Favorite Garden Books

February 8, 2011
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Garden reference books are popular, but so are garden-related fiction and biographies. Photo by BrewBooks on Flickr. In an ongoing search for great garden books, this multi-part series has traveled everywhere from the city lights of Toronto (Part II) to remote Nova Scotia and historic Philadelphia (Part I).  This time, we’re heading to the Northwest, […]

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Part II – Helen Battersby Shares Favorite Garden Books

February 6, 2011
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With so many good gardening books, it’s hard to pick just one. Photo by ulle.b on Flickr. Spring is right around the corner, so it’s the perfect time to reach for a garden book. In Part I of this series, I traveled from the remote shores of Nova Scotia to a hundred-year-old Philadelphia neighborhood to learn about great garden books. This time, I turn to […]

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Part I – Favorite Garden Books of Jodi DeLong and Carole Browne

January 28, 2011
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Loads of books to read. Photo by maubrowncow on Flickr. On cold winter days nothing beats the pleasure of curling up with a good book and a hot drink. That’s especially true for gardeners … who must patiently wait until Mother Nature allows them to finally play in the dirt again. That’s why I asked some […]

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Book Review: Complete Idiot’s Guide to Heirloom Vegetables

January 20, 2011
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If you’ve read Seasonal Wisdom before, you know that I love heirloom vegetables. From purple beans and spotted lettuces to long red radishes that look more like carrots … I’m hooked on the old, open-pollinated vegetables of the past. Especially if they have a charming history behind them as well.

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