Garden fairies discuss a dire situation

Garden fairies discuss a dire situation

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we cannot remember when we last posted on this blog but we know it was a while ago.

We are a little miffed that readers didn't clamor for us to write something sooner but we will get over it and besides we are far too busy to spend time here on this blog. After all, it is spring and we have flowers to open up all over the garden, including this

Short Tulips: A Garden Fairy Tale

Short Tulips: A Garden Fairy Tale

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Granny 'Gus' McGarden packed a lunch and began her journey from The Vegetable Garden Cathedral to Neighbor's View. She took a short cut through Plopper's Field and walked past the Lilac Muddle to reach her destination.

She wanted to see for herself the tulips that were blooming down low after hearing some of the other garden fairies talk about them.

Sure enough, when she got there, she saw

Garden Fairies Write a Press Release

Garden Fairies Write a Press Release

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we are busy because spring is coming early but when we got word of Carol's book that blew in during the big winds from a few days ago, we decided to pause in our spring flower duties and write a press release.

That is why the lovely crocus pictured here isn't open yet.  We had to stop everything and work on the press release.

Have garden fairies

Garden Fairies discuss sunny and 67º in February

Garden Fairies discuss sunny and 67º in February

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we have not posted for awhile, which as you know, is not our fault.

Carol hogs the computer. She doesn't like us to post too often because she said, "How am I going to be taken seriously as a garden writer and disseminator of great gardening wisdom if I let garden fairies post on my blog?"

As if!

We have a thing or two to explain to Carol about

Garden fairies take umbrage

Garden fairies take umbrage

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Patiently waiting for helleborus buds to open

Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we take umbrage! We are beside ourselves after taking a look through this book that Carol is getting ready to publish.

Please sit down and hold tight as we tell you...

There is just one mention of garden fairies in the entire book.

We are garden fairies so we will just take a moment and let that

Garden Fairies Discuss What Happens When They Argue

Garden Fairies Discuss What Happens When They Argue

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we were just discussing what happens when we argue amongst ourselves.  What happens is the toad paints the flowers of Tricyrtis to look like the spots on his back and so we end up with toad lilies.

He did this while we garden fairies were arguing about whether the flowers should be white or purple.  We at first were just a bit miffed that the

Has it really been 12 years?

Has it really been 12 years?

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Asters were also blooming in my garden 12 years ago

I was looking through some old blog posts earlier today, digging down deep into the past when I reached the very first post on this blog, published on September 26, 2004 and realized today is my blog's 12th anniversary.

In honor of this occasion, I'm turning my blog over, once again, to the garden fairies, to take a walk down memory lane.

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Garden fairies step in to save this blog

Garden fairies step in to save this blog

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we have stepped in at this time to save this blog from sure and certain extinction because a certain person seems to have become quite lax in providing any new blog posts.

So, we are garden fairies, and we have taken it upon ourselves to find some pictures and post some updates ourselves.

You're welcome.

First off, we found some pictures of

Garden fairies note changes

Garden fairies note changes

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we have decided to post on this blog at this unusual time, in the middle of the day, because there are certain events, changes, and goings-on here that we believe readers will want to be apprised of.

First off, we are garden fairies so we would be remiss not to mention one of our very favorite beloved clematis is blooming. This one is called '

Garden Fairies Notice Winds of Change

Garden Fairies Notice Winds of Change

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This isn't really Carol! (Library of Congress photo)

Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we are taking over this blog once again while Carol sits and ruminates by the fire.

We do not profess to know of what she ruminates, and we are pretty sure this isn't even a picture of her, but it will have to do.

The winds were sure blowing yesterday. Once again, the theme is where was Carol

The year she planted her peas early

The year she planted her peas early

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we are here to report that Carol, who insists everyone should plant their peas on St. Patrick's Day, planted her peas on March 8th.

That is not St. Patrick's Day.

We saw her do it.  Here is how it went down.  It was a warm summer's eve... wait, it wasn't summer, it was late winter, but it was warm... low 70's, we think.

We garden fairies were

Garden Fairies Report: Flower under pillow, flowers in your dreams

Garden Fairies Report: Flower under pillow, flowers in your dreams

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we have decided to post on this blog on a Tuesday, which is quite unusual for us. Usually we post on Sundays because that's when Carol is most likely to "yield the keyboard" to us, so to speak.

Why on Tuesday?

Because we have decided to reveal yet another garden fairy truth and we didn't want to wait until next Sunday.

We are garden fairies. We

Garden Fairies Stop By to Dry Out

Garden Fairies Stop By to Dry Out

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we have come in from all the rain for two very important reasons.

The first very important reason is of course to dry ourselves out. It has been raining for two days.  But we are not complaining. Christmas day was very sunny and mild and we hear the people didn't even wear coats when they went outside.

Then the day after Christmas, when it was

Leave the last of the blooms

Leave the last of the blooms

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Tempting to pick, but leave it for the garden fairies.

"Leave the last of the blooms for the garden fairies."

Thus the old saying* goes.

For if you don't... do you really want to know what happens, what the garden fairies will do, if you pluck every last bloom from your garden and take them all inside to enjoy, where the garden fairies can't see them?

Such a selfish act!

Always leave the

Petal Drop

Petal Drop

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When I saw these rose petals strewn about the beach, my first thought was not about the happy couple who had probably gotten married there the previous evening and then been showered with the rose petals.

My first thought was about the wonderful climbing rose my dad grew along the fence in our backyard.

It was a wonderful, marvelous, magical pink blooming rose which put all its energy into

Garden fairies send out a search party

Garden fairies send out a search party

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we are sending out a search party to find out where Carol is, has been, or will be, and why it is she has not posted on this blog for over a week.

Really, we've had to clear out cobwebs, dust off the paper, find some ink for the dried up ink well, just to be able to write this post.   But we are garden fairies and we are willing to do that so

A Garden Revival: A One Act Play

A Garden Revival: A One Act Play

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A Garden Revival

A One Act Play

By

Carol M.

Gardenangelist


Cast of Characters

Gardenangelist…………………………......An evangelist of gardening
Garden Fairies………………………………Assorted Garden Fairies
Granny Gus McGarden..................................The garden fairy who tends the compost bins

TIME: Late Summer
SETTING: A garden


ACT ONE

SCENE 1


(We see some garden fairies looking at a sign in

Garden fairies explain where here is in a letter

Garden fairies explain where here is in a letter

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Dear Readers,

Garden fairies here! And over there. And across the way there. And everywhere!  We are garden fairies and we've decided to write us a letter, too, just like the letters Carol has been writing on this blog.

Well, our letter won't be just like Carol's letters. After all, we are garden fairies and we have our own style. We don't copy anyone.  We are our own selves.

For our letter,

Read the Secret Diary of a Garden Fairy...

Read the Secret Diary of a Garden Fairy...

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Want to know what's been going on around here?

I read the Secret Diary of a Garden Fairy to find out.

Monday -
Dear Secret Diary of a Garden Fairy,

What a day we had. First, Carol came out and harvested green beans when she wasn't supposed to be here. Then there was a gigantic thunderstorm that turned the day into night and knocked down the sweet corn.  Granny Gus McGarden was just beside

Garden Fairies Discuss How Weed Situation is Becoming Dire

Garden Fairies Discuss How Weed Situation is Becoming Dire

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we like to think we've been missed on this blog and that every day when people come here and see we haven't posted, they are disappointed.

But now we are here, and we are posting, and it is the summer solstice and we have so much to tell we don't even know where to begin.

Well, we mostly will begin by saying that our work which consists