: About Me

My passion is ...

plants!

I know too much about ...

nothing...there is always more to learn

My parents always told me ...

treat others the way you wish to be treated

My childhood ambition ...

was to learn to hanglide

My favorite memory ...

sitting on the branch of the Kwanzann cherry tree reading a Laura Ingalls Wilder book and eating raisins

Why I write ...

to capture myself

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading theTerritorial Seed catalog, watching American Idol with my kids and listening to "Anthology" by John Prine, over and over again

My first job ...

cleaning my father's office building

My best moment ...

giving birth to two daughters, sans any meds...totally awesome.

My inspiration ...

Wally Lamb, and anything to do with springtime, and rebirth

Home & Garden > Annuals Buying annuals: Big box stores or small garden retailers?

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Summer will be here before we know it, and we are all salivating over the glossy seed catalogs that are showing up each day in our mailboxes. I can almost taste the tomatoes now. But when the soil warms and the sun is higher in the sky, my instant gratification mode sets in. I want an instant garden in two weeks or less, so obviously, my thoughts turn to container gardens and annual color. So, do I run out to Home Depot, or Wal-Mart to pick up flats and flats of color, or do I visit my local independent garden center and come home with a few choice annuals to complete my garden? My short a...

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