Skip to content
  • Home
  • “Garden Biography”
  • Lecture List
  • Introduction

Gardendaze

Gardening, Nature & Weather–slightly skewed

Search Results for: freedom lawn

The Freedom Lawn

May 3, 2019April 29, 2019gardendaze8 Comments

We’ve grown a little too obsessed with perfection. It’s everywhere we look. If we turn on the television, all we have to do is tune in to the commercials to see that we are being sold a bill of goods:…

Continue reading →

Backyard Wildlife, Lawn Care, Let's Not Be Mindless, Sustainable LivingBackyard Wildlife, bees and butterflies, Lawns, Let's Not Be Mindless, Sustainable gardening

Wordless Wednesday–Photos from the Freedom Lawn

April 20, 2016April 19, 2016gardendazeLeave a comment

A little over 2 weeks ago I talked about my “Freedom Lawn.” That post had no photos because we were still having snow! It has since warmed up enough for things to green up and start blooming so I thought…

Continue reading →

Lawn Care, Sustainable Living, Wordless Wednesdayslawn weeds, Lawns, Sustainable gardening, Wordless Wednesdays

Feeling Patriotic? Grow A Freedom Lawn This Year!

April 4, 2016April 1, 2016gardendaze2 Comments

I would love to say that I came up with this concept but I did not. It’s not even a new concept. It’s been around for a decade or more as I wrote about in a post that you can…

Continue reading →

Lawn Care, Native Plants, Sustainable LivingLawn Care, lawn weeds, Native Plants, Sustainable gardening

The “Freedom” Lawn

May 10, 2013April 30, 2013gardendaze6 Comments

Before anyone gets too excited, I’d love to claim title to this concept but it’s not mine. As near as I can figure, it dates back to 2005, to a book written by Hannah Holmes called Suburban Safari: A Year…

Continue reading →

Backyard Wildlife, Lawn Care, Native PlantsBees, Butterflies, Lawn Care, Lawns, Native Plants

Wordless Wednesday

August 31, 2016August 29, 2016gardendazeLeave a comment

Every time I go to water a certain pot, I find this katydid on one of the blooms. Usually it’s the gerbera daisies.  Sometimes it’s the marigolds. It doesn’t seem to be doing much damage.  And of course in the…

Continue reading →

Annuals, Backyard Wildlife, Wordless WednesdaysAnnuals, Backyard Wildlife, lawn weeds, Wordless Wednesdays

The Quest for Garden Perfection

April 1, 2016March 29, 2016gardendazeLeave a comment

On this April Fool’s Day, let’s not be Gardening Fools, shall we? Where I garden, in central Connecticut, it’s still pretty cold. In fact, over the weekend and into early next week, they’re predicting snow in some amounts from flurries…

Continue reading →

Backyard Wildlife, Lawn Care, Let's Not Be Mindless

The Simple Things….continued

June 8, 2015June 2, 2015gardendaze2 Comments

I started off my Friday post with a quote from a previous post about “sometimes doing the simple thing is also the best thing for our pollinators.” I sort of intended that post to be about pollinators and then it…

Continue reading →

Backyard WildlifeAnts, Bats, Bees, Butterflies, Hummingbirds

Wordless Wednesday–The Last of the May Flowers

May 27, 2015May 19, 2015gardendaze2 Comments

Despite some unusual heat this May, the lack of rain has slowed down both the growth and the flowering in my yard. It’s been a very strange season. Nevertheless, certain things are still blooming–with more to come in June I…

Continue reading →

Perennials, Shrubs, Wordless WednesdaysPerennials, Shrubs, Wordless Wednesdays

Happy Memorial Day!

May 30, 2016May 27, 2016gardendazeLeave a comment

Happy Memorial Day and a huge, grateful “thank you” to all who served or who are serving our country this Memorial Day. Particularly in this election year, it’s most important to remember that all of us would not enjoy our…

Continue reading →

Edibles, Vegetable GardeningBackyard Wildlife, Edibles, Vegetables

Twitter

  • Right (House) Plant, Right Place gardendaze.blog/2021/03/01/rig… 5 hours ago
  • RT @WeatherJosh: Decent dose of rain especially along the 95 corridor. More rain on the way tomorrow. Details at 6 on NBC CT. #nbcct https:… 1 day ago
  • RT @AleteiaEN: Station Church Day 11: As close to the first pope as possible. aleteia.org/2021/02/27/com… 1 day ago
  • RT @SaintOfTheDay: Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows: franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-d… https://t.co/HfDt13fcXC 1 day ago
  • cjr.org/covering_clima… 2 days ago

License

Creative Commons License
Gardendaze by Karla A. Dalley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at gardendaze.wordpress.com

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 504 other followers

Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×