Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Our award certificate from Minneapolis Blooms that I mentioned a couple months back arrived in the mail today, proclaiming our yard a "Garden of Merit."
That's an important-sounding title, but the letter accompanying the award helpfully clarifies what it takes to merit the award. After one of our neighbors nominated ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
I got a postcard in the mail today notifying us that our garden was selected to receive a 2007 Minneapolis Blooms Award! It looks like a neighbor or someone nominated us (Who is it? Fess up!) and then a garden evaluator stopped by sometime this summer to review ...
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Something for nothing– that’s my kind of deal. So I was delighted when my neighbor across the street offered me some surplus daylilies from her landscaping. My wife and I have been talking all summer about planting lilies along the foundation at the back of the house. We ...
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