This last flower season was my best one yet. Previously I had always been into perennials, flowers that bloom year after year and while I still love them, you just can’t beat how gorgeous annua...
http://www.asonomagarden.com/2015/09/17/planting-now-for-next-years-flowers/
Typically, on weeks that I join up with Ginny’s yarn along and Nicole’s Keep Calm, Craft On, I write about knitting and reading. But it’s hard with the children at home to find enough time ...
The garden is slaying me with beauty this year. The end of this month marks four years in this house and it’s our first growing season feeling like we’re…well not quite ‘on top of it’. ...
Narcissus will always have a soft spot in my heart now. When we very first looked at this property they were blooming and one of our children picked a couple which I brought home. We left this pr...
http://www.asonomagarden.com/2014/10/23/narcissus-thinning-replanting-2/
You may remember a couple weeks ago when we went to go visit Chileno Valley Ranch and I gushed about their roses. I mentioned how I came home and immediately started cleaning out my chicken coop ...
A year and a half ago I started Niger Hollyhock seedlings in hopes of dyeing with them. I ended up with about six plants, three of which blossomed, one that was incredibly happy, sent up many sta...
http://www.asonomagarden.com/2014/09/04/dying-with-hollyhocks/
There is some quote I keep seeing popping up on Pinterest that says something about how at the end of your life you should end up battered and torn with make up smeared, or something to that effe...
http://www.asonomagarden.com/2014/06/02/hurried-life-slow-blossoms/
Most of the year when I go outside and see the assortment of 50+ rose bushes on our property, I think to myself, you know, I’m really not much of a rose person. I’m not sure what qualities ma...
This past weekend we stayed home. I even wrote it very large on the calender, “busy on the homestead” across both Saturday and Sunday. Starting with September our calender and going through t...
http://www.asonomagarden.com/2013/10/29/daffodils-as-gopher-prevention/
Wednesdays are crazy days around here. It’s my marathon day. Three trips to school, three extra curricular activites afterwards, breakfast, lunch, dinner, clean up, teethbrushing, read aloud ti...