Garden Fairies Cancel Celebration of End of Winter

Garden Fairies Cancel Celebration of End of Winter

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No one knew who put up the sign, but when the garden fairies woke up shivering, they saw it, set at an angle so the snow stuck to it.

Honoria Hellebore wiped the snow off and read it to everyone gathered around.

"The celebration of the end of winter has been cancelled due to snow."

When word of the cancellation reached Granny Gus McGarden out in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral, she nodded

Garden fairies discuss someone's laziness.

Garden fairies discuss someone's laziness.

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we have decided to post on Friday instead of our usual Sunday because Carol is lazy.  That's right. We said it. She's lazy.

She has barely lifted a finger to do garden clean up around here. Though, come to think of it, she has cleared off the beds in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral and put a nice layer of leaves and grass clippings on top of them.

Garden fairies take over for Wildflower Wednesday

Garden fairies take over for Wildflower Wednesday

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Garden fairies here.

We are garden fairies and we are once again called upon to take over this blog and provide some useful information for the fine readers who come here looking for useful information only to find some of that stuff Carol will sometimes write that we don't think is useful at all.

Plus, if we don't post for Wildflower Wednesday to show what we did in the

Who opens all those flowers?

Who opens all those flowers?

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Mayapple bud

Garden fairies here!

We are garden fairies and we know the answer to the question "who opens all those flowers?"

We do. Yes we garden fairies are responsible for opening every single flower in the garden.

And we are near exhaustion at this point because this is spring, our busy season.

And it seems we are busier every year as someone keeps planting new flowers.  We barely get

Garden fairies explain mystery gladiola

Garden fairies explain mystery gladiola

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Garden fairies here!

We are garden fairies and you should have seen the look on Carol's face when she saw this white gladiola growing in the middle of Plopper's Field, the garden border where she just plops plants in wherever there is a bare spot.

She looked quite startled when she saw this big glad towering up over some daylilies.  Then she looked puzzled and her brow kind of furrowed a

Spots on Flowers

Spots on Flowers

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Canna showing garden fairy footprints

If you do an online search for "spots on flowers", the most common results will lead you to sites telling you about all kinds of plant diseases. Your search may even lead you to sites with information about too much sun causing the flower spots.

To the authors of all those sites, I say well, sure, possibly the spots are caused by diseases, but does my