Dear Leslie, So nice to see you again

Dear Leslie, So nice to see you again

With a shared love of gardening

Dear Leslie,

It was so nice to see a new post on your blog, Growing a Garden in Davis, this weekend. It really has been too long between posts, but I see now why you were so busy.

I admire you for setting off on a new path, in your garden and in your life.  May both turn out beautifully for you!

I thought of you the other day when I saw an online video about how different generations play.

Dear Frances, How you inspire me

Dear Frances, How you inspire me

With a shared love of gardening

Dear Frances,

I've wanted to write you for the longest time to tell you how impressed I was when I learned how much of your garden, Fairegarden,  you transplanted to a new location last fall.

Wow, is all I can say.  You dug up and transplanted so many plants to your new garden and planted them all in the ground, while moving mundane stuff like clothes and furniture, too.  I know you had help

Dear Kathy, Thank you for the memory keeper plants

Dear Kathy, Thank you for the memory keeper plants

With a shared love of gardening

Surprise lilies

Dear Kathy,

I've wanted to write for awhile and tell you thank you for being such a faithful participate in my blogging meme, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day on your blog Cold Climate Gardening.

I'm sure it isn't always easy living and gardening in a colder hardiness zone than almost anyone else, or at least anyone else I know, and watching and reading about all our flowers

Dear Mary Ann, Do you remember my tomatoes?

Dear Mary Ann, Do you remember my tomatoes?

With a shared love of gardening

Dear Mary Ann,

I was out in the garden this evening picking more tomatoes and thought of you and your blog Gardens of the Wild, Wild West.

Do you remember when you visited me in late summer in 2011 when you were here for the Garden Writers Association symposium?  My vegetable garden was such a mess that summer.

Earlier that spring, I had a crew tear out the old raised beds which were made

Red Dirt Ramblings, May I Express My Gratitude

Red Dirt Ramblings, May I Express My Gratitude

With a shared love of gardening

Dear Dee,

Thank you for your latest lovely blog post on Summer Flowers for Summer Heat.  I know you feel the heat in Oklahoma much more than we do here in Indiana.

But we are gardeners and somehow we make the best of it, don't we?  Whether it is too much rain, as is my good-to-have problem this year or not enough rain, which we wouldn't wish on our worst enemies, we figure out what will grow

Wildflower Wednesday: May I express my gratitude?

Wildflower Wednesday: May I express my gratitude?

wildflower wednesday With a shared love of gardening

Bee on Cup Plant flower

Dear Gail,

I'm writing today to express my thanks to you for coming up with this wonderful meme called Wildflower Wednesday.  Through your garden, which we've all come to enjoy through your blog posts on Clay and Limestone, we've learned so much about the importance of planting wildflowers to attract pollinators.

I thought of you when my garden designer sat down with