Travel Stories: English Gardens Tour (2)

(This is a continuation of my tales about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.)  I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you more about the wonderful tour escort we had. Cosetta Zanobetti was born and raised in Florence, Italy. But she has lived in England for many years and really knows her gardens! As an avid gardener, she was […]

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Vegetable garden tour #4

potato, vegetable garden tour

This summer, I’ve been taking you along on a vegetable garden tour about every 3 weeks. I can scarcely believe we’re at the end of August already. You’re going to see some changes in my garden for this 4th tour. Here we are, with September just around the corner. I’m really starting to focus on harvesting as many crops in the […]

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Vegetable garden tour #3

leeks, vegetable garden tour 3

Hi, everyone. This year, I’ve been filming a vegetable garden tour about every 3 weeks so you can see how things are growing. I hope you’ve been enjoying these videos. I’m always amazed by the transformation that takes place in a garden each growing season. Plants that were puny in early spring are suddenly thriving and bearing fruit. Little problems […]

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Clever ideas: Garden trellises

I went on the Spokane in Bloom garden tour a couple of weekends ago. There were some clever ideas that involved garden trellises and I wanted to share with you. The first idea was rose arbors that had been anchored inside of raised beds (see top photo). As you can see, they were just gorgeous and very popular with garden visitors […]

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