Celebrating my anniverary as a writer at Suite101.com. Sharing Chocolate cake with my garden friends is a good start, I think. Photo credit, Donna Diegel. It has been four years since I began writing at Suite101.  Although the web is just one media I write on, it offers many advantages to getting the word out about gardening.  Writing for S [...]

When I was a little girl, each spring my Dad and I would race to see who would spot a robin first.  Even back in the 1960s, Wisconsin’s state bird was considered the first reliable sign that garden soil would be warming up soon. But it took moving to Ohio to experience this. Baby robins up close in my container garden space. My springti [...]