Author Archive: Annie Plowman
Getting The Most Out Of Your Blooming Perennials
You take a look at the garden and wonder, “Where have all my pretty flowers gone?” Take heart. If you’ve got perennials, the answer is fairly easy. They are waiting to be dead-headed. Dead-heading is simply removing the spent flowers and giving them the chance to delight you again. Dead-heading serves many purposes. First of [...]
My Not-So-Mysterious Children
I love bringing new people together. I enjoy the whole thing of sharing my friends and introducing people to others that they might not otherwise meet. I don’t have a big family or extended family. Most of my social life revolves around my husband and two nearly grown children and, of course, friends. That’s it. [...]
Simplified Vacations And Adventurous Kids
With vacations around the corner, one of the best pieces of advice I can give new parents is “simplify”. Amongst all the mis-steps and poor judgments we may have made as “veteran” parents, this is one choice we do not regret. When our kids were small, we made the conscious decision that we wanted them [...]
Put Your Garden Hat On! It’s Spring!
The weather is changing. Let a new season of weather complaints begin! Truthfully, it’s not hot yet. We are just adjusting. Enjoy it! Put your Garden Hat On! Spring is in full swing and many moons will come and go before the paint peeling heat rolls in. This is one of my favorite times of [...]
A Home For What’s Precious?
One of my greatest pleasures is being a dog owner. I have several of the four-legged family members . A couple of our pooches, over the years, could best be termed lapses in judgment but they all lived out their days with all the doggie spoils, care and love we could offer. They would, in [...]
Aphids Suck
So you’ve tried hosing them off. You’ve tried soap and ladybugs, and the aphids have taken over your garden. You’re not alone. These little buggers are out in force but you can get the upper hand. Aphids are destructive little critters that feed on your plants by piercing and sucking. They appear most often on [...]
Making memories in dirt
Spring took its dear sweet time but it seems to have finally sprung. Yay! Spring break is also here and some of you will be fortunate enough to have a little extra time with the kids. How wonderful is that! This time flies by so quickly and the memories you build now will last forever. [...]
Finding Balance
I’ve always been suspicious of anything that makes extraordinary demands on the time of my children. With errant parenting and educational problems on the rise, it seems many good folks think they have the program that will make a generation of super-kids. Everyone seems to want more and more of our kids’ time. How do [...]
Capture Moments In The Garden
It was a long day. I was trying to work off the over-tired feeling by some quiet and aimless wandering in the garden. It’s a relatively small garden; but walking it with a camera can make it feel large to me. With a cold beverage in one hand, the smart phone makes a good easy [...]
Thawing Out And Reviving
In winter, the bears settle in to their chosen den to hibernate. Everything in their bodies and surrounding environment slows to a pace that they awake only to danger. Papa bear is dead to the world and mama bear is just awake enough to birth her young and feed them as needed. Other than that, [...]
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