Dee A. Nash's Blog, page 33

Garden Book Celebration at Gardening Gone Wild

When my friend, Fran Sorin, asked if I wanted The 20-30 Something Garden Guide: A No-Fuss, Down and Dirty, Gardening 101 for Anyone Who Wants to Grow Stuff (St. Lynn’s Press 2014) to be part of her garden book celebration at Gardening Gone Wild, I jumped at the chance. I’m excited to be included with all of the other authors [...]

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Speaking of tough roses

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at Roses, Inc. Green Country in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, one of my favorite towns. Speaking about tough roses for the Oklahoma landscape, makes me think of all the roses I’ve loved and grown here. It is a wonderful thing to get to chat with [...]

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Gardening like a Mad Woman

The last couple of weeks, I have gardened like a mad woman. Everything looks a lot better. Even though I’m sore, I’ll garden like crazy again today. Why? Because I’m terribly behind, and the weather has been as cool as iced green tea. Today is forecast as hot and windy, but I’ll be out there again. [...]

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May 2014

Good morning everyone! It’s that time again. Garden Bloggers Bloom Day is upon us. A special thank you to Carol Michel was hosting us yet again on her blog. Looking back over past bloom days, I see that I usually write about roses. Not this year. Spring has been so cool and dry that the [...]

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Prairie sounds

We’ve had a warm spring thus far–in the 80s most days. I refuse to turn on the air conditioner as long as I can delay the inevitable. This week was cool and breezy, and tomorrow the low is 40F, kinda hard on the tomatoes, peppers and eggplant I planted last week, but what are you gonna [...]

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Before the spring freeze

Will it freeze tonight? In our house, we always say, “Is the Pope Catholic?” Yes, it’s going to freeze. Before the projected cold front robs my garden of its spring grandeur, I took some pictures in the snow. I want to share the heartbreak that is often a prairie spring. Yes, you read that right. [...]

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The roses took a beating

As I go about my spring chores in the garden, I’ve looked at my roses with much dismay. They aren’t well. The damage is so bad I pondered whether they have Rose Rosette Disease although I haven’t seen the characteristic foliage on any roses that remain in my garden. Remember, I shovel pruned those that [...]

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Spring is a fast-moving train of garden goodness

We just finished winter–I hope–and now spring has decided to come on like a fast-moving train. At 1:00 p.m., it’s 72F with a forecasted high of 81F. Sounds lovely, but it’s also ten degrees too hot for this early in the year. At this rate, my lettuce won’t have a productive end in my salad [...]

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A table setting worthy of spring and St. Patrick’s Day

Last week, my family celebrated spring’s arrival with a St. Patrick’s Day party. We do this every year, and it’s one of my favorite get togethers. I decided I wanted to showcase my glassybaby collection (small that it is) with flow blue china. Bill gives me a piece of flow blue for nearly every holiday, [...]

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Which flowers are easy to grow from seed? Here are several I like.

Gardens don’t have to be expensive. Here are several flowers to grow from seed. All can be sown directly outdoors too. Many of them come from cottage gardens or your grandmother’s garden, and there’s a good reason. They are almost all self-sowing and easy to grow. If you have decent soil and can scratch a [...]

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