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April 7, 2025
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Dreary Days Make My World Bright

Today, it’s raining. Love it! I slipped outside between showers to talk to our new bloomers and plants whose roots have made it into the ground, and those who are soon to have their little feet in the dirt. Bring on the gardening before it gets too hot and I hibernate.  Our backyard garden area […]

May 22, 2023
lisakunk

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Pretend to be a Gardener: My Secret Recipe for Pretending you are A Plant Whisperer by Lisa Batten Kunkleman

Simple gardening 101: Geraniums My favorite pet flower is the geranium. I call it pet because it makes me smile when I see it blooming away, just being itself, just like I enjoy watching a cat or dog living the good life being themselves. My geraniums are not constantly demanding food and water like many […]

May 7, 2019
lisakunk

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Our Dogs, The Garden Protectors

By Lisa Batten Kunkleman Does your dog take time to smell the roses? Ours do. And the new hydrangea. Like typical work foremen, they watch our every move making sure we spread grass seed just so. They crouch among the budding flowers, guarding them from all the scavenging deer that even eat thorny rose bushes. Neither […]

April 12, 2019
lisakunk

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Think of Chores as a Workout

By Lisa Batten Kunkleman Who needs a gym when you have farm and yard work to do? Pull some weeds, pick up sticks, rake some straw. Or, do a full day’s work before “work”. Here’s one example of my husband’s morning workout before he leaves for his real job.