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Lavender is one of my favorite flowers. We have a row of lavender along the walkway to our house where the plants will catch plenty of afternoon sunshine and a few individual plants scattered in other sunny spots. We grow two varieties of English Lavender, …
A few years ago, we purchased a small Meyer Lemon tree. We keep it indoors in the winter, and move it outdoors in the summer. It has suffered from both neglect and over kindness, and has weathered its share of damaging hailstorms. Yet every year …
Before last summer I’d never made any kind of jam or jelly. I’d cooked up some strawberries and peaches and made freezer jam, but it just isn’t the same thing as a proper jam or jelly. Then I had a bumper crop of grapes (nearly …
