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A Senior’s Ultimate Guide to Gardening from a Chair

Fresh air, nature, flowers, veggies and the satisfaction of nurturing living, growing plants. What’s not to love about gardening? However, getting down on your hands and knees to tend to your blooms can become more challenging with age. If the thought of sitting down on the ground and getting back up is stopping you from […]

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Grow Young In Your Garden

As someone creeping up on 80 and still feeling sprightly, I often reflect on how I’ve kept my body moving, my mind sharp, and my spirit young. Turns out, the secret isn’t bottled in a supplement or buried in a self-help book. It’s planted right outside in the garden. My mother was a nurse and […]

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It’s Nothing Short of a Plant Obsession

Do you have a little dirt under your nails? Maybe you have a bit of green on your hands from pulling weeds? Do you keep a stack of seed catalogs on your bedside table? Do you dream of seedlings and flower buds? Do you have what could only be called a plant obsession? You, my […]

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10 Great Blossoms of Gardening Wisdom

My favorite thing about being a part of this community is the shared gardening wisdom. Today’s piece, “10 Things I Learned from Gardening” is a fun and quirky list of exactly that, so to kick it off, I thought I’d share two things I’ve learned over the years as a gardener. The first is not […]

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My German Recipe Collection

I’m not saying German food changed my life—but let’s just say, after enough schnitzel, sauerkraut, and German chocolate cake, I started questioning my ancestry, my destiny, and my pants size. Yes, it’s true. For most of my life, I strutted around under the delusion that I had German roots. With surnames like Holt and Kissel […]

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We Were Not a Gardening Family

I like to think of my family as a gardening family. I love spending an afternoon with my daughter and husband planting seeds, pulling weeds, and enjoying the smell of fresh herbs while we watch the bees busily moving from flower to flower. However, I sometimes forget that not everyone enjoys gardening. I don’t blame […]

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Planting Inspiration In A Tin Can

There’s no end to the places we can find gardening and planting inspiration. For me, sometimes it’s a good meal that includes a variety of vegetable that I’m not familiar with, or the way a particular color of flower looks against a cloudy Summer sky. Other times, inspiration strikes in the guise of a memory. […]

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My Deliciously Messy Love Affair with Italian Cooking

Buongiorno, my fellow flavor fanatics! It all started so innocently—just a little Italian Wedding Soup on a rainy day, a biscotti or two at breakfast, maybe a splash of Sangiovese for good measure. But before I knew it, I had drifted headlong into a full-blown love affair with Italian cuisine. Not the touristy kind that […]

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7 Tips for Storing Cut Flowers

Cutting your flowers is a great way to naturally decorate the inside of your home and add a little color. Some gardeners even go as far as to specifically grow them to display them indoors. However, once they’ve been cut, they won’t last forever. Follow these tips to know how to keep your cut flowers […]

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Growing Zinnias Every Which Way

Zinnias are one of my favorite flowers, and growing zinnias has been an adventure for me, so when I caught the title of this piece, I knew it would be a good one, no matter the outcome. But this story reminds me of all the flower gardeners out there. I have two friends who run […]

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