Category: Gardening Tips

Ken-Do Attitude

Look out for hot-weathered hazards

July marks middle of the summer gardening season. Expect the hottest temperatures and humidity of the season this month. Having said that, here are a few gardening tips to help plants through this tough time of the year. Be sure...

Sweet Simplicity

No time for the summertime blues

Sweet, sweet summertime is here! It is my favorite non-holiday time of the year for so many reasons — a slower change of pace, longer days, vacations and an abundance of fun activities to do throughout the season. In recent...

Gardening Tips

Pollinators drawn to Agastache Blue Fortune

Agastache Blue Fortune is also called Hummingbird Mint because when Blue Fortune blooms, the brightly colored hummingbirds visit the fragrant nectar rich flowers. The tiny tubular flowers line up and around of the top of the 3...

Antique Discovery

Collections of sea shells

(Editor’s note: DeeDee Wood is the owner of Black Cat Curiosities, an online antiques research and sales venue.) You might be walking down the beach this summer and stop to consider a shell that has just washed up from out of...