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Archive for the ‘GOOPS (gardening Oops!)’ Category

 This month, in honor of GOOPS or Gardening Oops, I have a major gardening faux-pas to own up to. Yes, we all make mistakes and hopefully can learn from the shared knowledge of what works and what doesn’t in other bloggers gardens – that is the impetus behind GOOPs started by Joene Hendry.  But this month, my GOOPs [...]

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It’s the first day of the month which means it’s time to post another Gardening OOPs (GOOPs) that we all make but usually are reluctant to share.  The inspiration for GOOPs comes from Joene Hendry, fellow garden coach and CT-based garden blogger.  If you haven’t visited Joene’s blog, joenesgarden, yet you’re in for a treat.  It’s filled [...]

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This month, in celebration of those gardening mistakes, or GOOPs!, we all seem to make, I’ve decided to share a victory of sorts over a big GOOPs I thought I’d made back in 2008.  To make a long story short, I bought a crape myrtle, Lagerstromia indica ‘Tuscarora’, that was border-line cold hardy for my southwestern Connecticut [...]

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It’s the 1st of the month and that means it’s time to share a Gardening OOPs, or GOOPs.  In case you’re not familiar with GOOPs, the inspiration for GOOPs comes from Joene Hendry, of joenesgarden fame. Joene is a fellow CT-based garden blogger, garden coach and garden designer. This month, rather than share one of my own GOOPs, [...]

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I know many gardener’s feel that if you’re not killing a few plants each season, you’re doing something wrong.  Honestly, I don’t subscribe to that mantra.  I’m not saying I’m a perfect gardener, but I really don’t kill too many plants.  I can probably count on both hands the number of plants I’ve killed over the [...]

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It’s the start of another month and that means it’s time for garden bloggers to fess up about the mistakes we make in our own gardens.  You know what they say…if you’re not making mistakes, you’re not doing it right!  The inspiration for Gardening Oops (GOOPs) comes from Joene Hendry, fellow Connecticut-based garden blogger, garden [...]

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It’s the first day of the month so that means it’s time to post another Gardening OOPs (GOOPs) that we all make but seldom like to share.  The inspiration for GOOPs comes from Joene Hendry, fellow garden coach and CT-based garden blogger.  If you haven’t yet visited Joene’s blog, joenesgarden, you’re in for a treat.  It’s filled [...]

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Saying Goodbye to 2009, Looking Forward to 2010 Not only is it the first day of the month, it’s also the first day of the new year and the first day of a new decade.  Traditionally, on the first day of each month, I participate in GOOPs, (gardening OOPs) where gardeners share the mistakes they [...]

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It’s the first day of the month again so that means it’s time to share another of my gardening faux-pas’ with you.  The first of each month has been christening Gardening Oops (GOOPs) Day by Joene Hendry, fellow garden coach, garden blogger and soon to be fellow Professional Landscape Designer.  For my final GOOPs of 2009, [...]

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October GOOPs

It’s the first of the month again and that means it’s time to share another one of my Gardening Oops (GOOPs).  The inspiration for GOOPs comes from fellow Connecticut garden coach Joene Hendry.  Joene blogs about all things gardening at joene’s garden.  It was Joene’s idea for gardeners to stop taking themselves so seriously and admit [...]

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