Propagating Plants
*I recommend that all bachelors have a garden. It will give them the experience of being a...
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Harvest Time and Bulbs
“Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest.” English Saying Every September I...
Read MoreSirius is Serious
“When the ancients first observed Sirius emerging as it were from the sun…they believed its power of heat to have been so excessive that…the Sea boiled, the Wine turned sour, Dogs grew mad, and all other creatures became...
Read MoreGrowing Gratitude! By Cynthia Brian
âGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.â Henry Ward Beecher Are you grateful for the simple things in life? This is the perfect time of the year to reflect upon our blessings and gifts. I am so...
Read MoreColor Me Happy! By Cynthia Brian
âI feel like a warm, red autumn!â Marilyn Monroe My favorite part of a November autumn is looking out from my bedroom balcony to the kaleidoscope of colors dotting the landscape in the valley. Trees are cloaked in hues of...
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Hauling Harvests and Haunting Halloween By Cynthia Brian
âTickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest.â English Saying October...
Read MoreAwaken in a Healing Garden By Cynthia Brian
âWho looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.â ~ Carl Jung We celebrate joyous occasions such as weddings, childbirths, and career moves with flowers. In sadder times or with the death of a loved one, plants and...
Read MoreAutumn Accord By Cynthia Brian
Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb Having spent autumns in France, I attribute a portion of this yearâs love for fall to my past travel experiences of quiet beauty in the yellowing vineyards, the crisp, cool...
Read MoreCynthia Brian’s Gardening Guide for November
By Cynthia Brian âThe small but intense pleasure of walking through dry leaves and kicking them up as you goâ¦they rustle, they brustle, they crackle.â From Walking through Leaves, Vita Sackville-West From the last rays of...
Read MoreCynthia Brian’s Gardening Guide for February
âTo me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.â                   ~ Walt Whitman Despite Valentineâs Day, familial birthdays, and President Day holidays, the...
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