Gardening – New England's Narrow Road

by Pam

Pictures of Hydrangea Flowers

I photograph hydrangeas for my Hydrangeas Blue blog, for making wedding stationery for my BlueHyd online store, and for use other places I write online. Recently I added some hydrangea shrubs to my yard and although I didn’t think they would bloom this year, they did! It’s a wonderful surprise and I’ve been enjoying photographing […]

by Pam

Blackberry Brambles Are a Real Pain

Pretty little white flowers mean blackberries will be growing soon. I hate them. Blackberry bushes, or blackberry brambles, cover the sloping area of my backyard and I spent most of last Fall pruning and pulling them up to make room for my garden. My backyard is tiny and they are the last think I need […]

by Pam

Re-purposing Window Grilles For the Garden

When I bought my house the sliding door and another glass door had white dividers, or grilles, in them. I don’t like that look. I like my windows to be clear and open – free of dividers to block my view outside. I was happy to find that the dividers could be unsnapped and removed, […]

by Pam

So That’s A Garlic Scape!

Okay I am going to show my ignorance here, but I honestly did not know what a garlic scape was. Yesterday I was out back checking on my tiny garden and saw these interesting pointy things on the tops of my garlic that I had planted last fall. I’ve heard of garlic scapes, but have […]

by Pam

My Encounter With The Turd Bug

As I was checking on my newly planted tomato plants the other day, I noticed this black spot on a leaf. I thought at first it was just a bird turd because that is what it looked like. The bluejays and chickadees like to perch on the wire cages that are around the tomatoes and […]