Rooting for the roses
The big rose bush up front is showing signs up greening up. Yes, another reason I’m a fan of the arrival of spring.
New plants will add energy to the front yard
My dear wife Karen got to dig in the dirt Sunday. Two of the plants we took home from Ballantyne Gardens are now adding a splash of purple to the front yard. And the knock out rose bush has its new circle of life all planned out. Yahoo!
Hello, Rose of Sharon (and more)
My dear wife Karen’s careful clipping up front at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville has paid off again this month of August. She asked if I’d looked closely at the tallest of our front yard garden plants last weekend. The Rose of Sharon had bloomed, big and bright. I had to…
Daisies come up big time
The daisies my dear wife Karen put in the front yard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville are having a whopper of a season. When they’re not in bloom, I worry that the mail carrier will stomp on them. But they look marvelous from every angle.
New things are blooming up front
A tall, scraggly bush has coaxed some cuss words out of my dear wife Karen and I since we moved into A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville last October. We never thought it would amount to much. But instead of digging it out or cutting it down, we trimmed, pruned and hoped.…
Coming up red and yellow
The reds and the yellows look quite nice sharing space in the hourglass garden in the front yard of our beloved Little Bitty in the Syracuse City neighborhood of Syracuse. And the red bush in the corner of the back porch is springing up rather nicely, too, despite the attention that spot gets from Ellie…
Peony gone, roses step in
The peony season indeed went fast in front of the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Syracuse. When I got home from the board of trustees meeting at the Liverpool Public Library on Wednesday night, my dear wife Karen had even picked up all the fallen blossoms from our lawn. Two weeks, not…
Peony couplets
When I came home to the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighbor of Eastwood after a good day at the Liverpool Public Library Tuesday, two of our powerful peony flowers had deemed it time to pop into existence. It was a powerful sight to welcome me around 4:30 p.m. When I pulled the Chevy…
Still waiting for the Little Bitty version of the festival
While I was putting in my final weekend shifts at the store, my dear wife Karen took a trip to the garden department of our Syracuse city version and picked up her spring collection of flowers for our front-yard hourglass garden. In the ground she planted them to pretty up the Little Bitty in our…
A couple of roses as Karen cleans up the front
My dear wife Karen got out front of the Little Bitty and went to work. She loves her gardening. And thus our yard in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood looks better now than it did last week. First off, she chopped away the grass that had overgrown our stone walk that juts off the…
Mark Bialczak 