About
Hello Garden Lovers,
Welcome to my blog, my name is Marie and I am an Advanced Master Gardener, a Rosarian, a photographer, and in general and all around garden enthusiast! I have been a gardener for ten years now, and I never tire of being outdoors and enjoying nature at its best! My blog is dedicated to cold climate gardening (Zones 2-5). Who says you can’t have a beautiful garden just because the seasons are short!I am going to write about tried and tested tips and techniques I learned over the years that worked well for me.
Here is a poem that sums up my feelings about gardening:
“When in these fresh mornings
I go into my garden before anyone is awake,
I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
In this hour divinely fresh and still,
the fair face of every flower
salutes me with a silent joy
that fills me with infinite content;
each give me its color,its grace, its perfume,
and enriches me with the
consummation of its beauty”
(Celia Thaxter, 1835-1894)
Happy Gardening,
Marie
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Great website, lots of very helpful information.
I attened “The Garden Expo”in Madison, WI this weekend,2-1007, I saw so much I’m still trying to remember the good stuff. I even found a book about “Container Gardening” that was marked down. After reading your suggesting on keeping recods, I found one of my notebooks with empty protector sheets. Also printed some 3 x 5 cards. with name,dateplanted, date harvested, etc. because I knew it was a good idea.Dot
I attened “The Garden Expo” in Madison, WI this weekend,2-1007, I saw so much I’m still trying to remember the good stuff. I even found a book about “Container Gardening” that was marked down. After reading your suggesting on keeping recods, I found one of my notebooks with empty protector sheets. Also printed some 3 x 5 cards with name,date planted, date harvested, etc. because I knew it was a good idea. My wheelchair is no longer gonna keep me from gardening. I, also, found good source for items I want to purchase. Dot
Hi Marie, just met your son Chris and he mentioned your blog so I thought I’d drop by and say G’day.
You have a lovely blog here - I really like the design and your writing is really engaging. I’m going to forward your link onto a few green thumb friends that I have.
Really nice work Marie - keep it up!
Good information here. I’m looking forward to more of your news - liked the rose article with new varieties but then again, I’m a sucker for a pretty face.
One of the winners of your Mother’s Day Contest suggested keeping old growth for insects. Now there’s a wise woman!
I’m 30 miles from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and since I never use insecticides, or other -icides, I grow larval foods for native butterflies, 47 of them requiring a specific plant where I live. They aren’t all like monarchs, mating in spring, maturing in fall. Some fly mid-winter on balmy days!
You might be interested in the native plants important for species preservation–no Pigweed (wild Amaranthus)= no Sooty Wing (Pholisora catullus) butterfly. Common plants urgent for species survival here:
Dock or Sorrel for Gray Copper and Small Copper
Rockcress/Arabis for Rosy Marbles
Panic Grass for Brown Broken Dash
Redtop (Tridens flavus) for Little Glassy Wing
Senna/Cassia for 4 Sulfur butterflies
Wild Columbine for Columbine Dusky Wing
Pipevine for the Pipevine Swallotail
Violets for 6 Fritillarys: the Meadow Fritillary must have Viola pallens, a wild white violet.
Stinging Nettle for Fire-Rim Tortoise Shell and Red Admiral
Asters for the Orange Crescent and Pearl Crescent
Clover for Greenish Clover Blue
Milkweed for the Monarch
Blueberries for Pink-Edged Sulfur & Cranberry Bog Copper
Junipers for Cedar Hairstreaks
Pines for the Eastern Pine Elfin
New Jersey Tea bush for Western Tortoise Shell and Mottled Dusky Wing
Hackberry for Tawny Emperor, Snout, and Hackberry Butterflies
Oaks for Scrub-Oak Hairstreak, Eastern Oak Dusky Wing, and Brown Dusky Wing
wild prunus for Coral Hairstreaks
Willows for Northern Willow Hairstreaks
Sumac for the Red-Banded Hairstreak
Wild Helianthus for Great Plains Checkerspot
Sedge for 4 butterflies
Fescue for Sachem
Bluegrass for 2 butterflies
Indigo: Baptisia australis for Frosted Elfin
And if you grow these plants, you will have many insect-eating birds and dragonflies. Oh yes, butterflies. too. I was delighted when a new neighbor commented, “There sure are a lot of butterflies around here!”
Loved your blog! I love to garden and since I live in Seattle I have a little longer growing season than you.(both good and bad as we mowed the yard, hopefully for the last time) I found lots of great information. I am going to forward your site to my brothers who live in Madison. Keep up the great work.