Bring Them Inside for a Visit by Sandy Swegel Even though I don’t have a cutting garden, I love to bring flowers into the house, especially delicate fragile ones that can disappear in a formal arrangement. This morning on a walk through an abandoned lot, I saw some pretty blue flax. I snipped them and a […]
Finding Inspiration by Sandy Swegel I’ve been going to our local (and extraordinary) botanic gardens, The Denver Botanic Gardens, DBG, every two weeks this year. Every year I intend to go but get busy and only get there once or so. But I bought a family membership that included six tickets per visit….so now I’m […]
Enjoy These Morning Moments by Sandy Swegel Rifling through the garden in the early sunrise hour this morning, I paused to look up at the morning sky that looked just like the ones in Renaissance paintings. Following the beauty to the earth, I saw for the first time this year my garden in full growth […]
Getting Bigger, Stronger Plants by Sandy Swegel Ok, your seedlings are up and growing. Whether in the ground or growing under a light, your plants have one or two sets of true leaves. You can’t wait to have a big beautiful and blooming plant. Now you have to be brave. You have to take that […]
Getting Garden Smart by Sandy Swegel One thing is certain. The older you get, the more you understand the depth of this saying. Too soon old, too late smart? Most of us finally get smarter –in gardening, in life, in work, and in love—but some of us are slow or stubborn learners and by the […]
Giving Your Plants What They Need by Sandy Swegel It’s a fact of all young growing things. They need food. And while big hungry plants like Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors can loudly demand their food, the young seedlings you have growing on windowsills are no less insistent and starving. Most potting soils and seedling […]
Multiplying Your Plants by Sandy Swegel No this isn’t about how to sneak into your neighbor’s yard at night with a shovel and bucket. Although stopping by at your neighbor’s when she’s in full gardening mode can often score a few plants that she’s getting rid of. But Spring is a time when plants are […]
Dirt is Good For You! by Sandy Swegel Two health articles came across my desk this week praising the virtues of getting in touch with dirt. Now most gardeners know that one of the best things about gardening is getting to play in the dirt. Spring gardens are always well dug and turned because it’s […]
Beauty Beyond Belief by Sandy Swegel Cecilia posted a question on our Facebook page this week asking if we knew a website like ours for wildflowers. Wait, I thought that’s us. We’ve gotten very enamored of vegetables lately but we know our roots: we started as a wildflower seed company. BBB Seed’s name came from […]
Seeds Bring People Together by Sandy Swegel Many of the ideas for this blog come from questions I hear from an email list of gardeners I belong to. I introduced a new gardener to our group this week and she was so grateful to suddenly have a whole network of people she could turn to […]
