Rose Pruning Primer, Early Pruning post traumatic stress disorder (PPTSD)

Let us hope and pray y’all have not gotten spring fever with the deceptively warm winter, gone wild and whacked your bushes. Because if a killing frost comes along there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth if the new growth stimulated by your early pruning dies back as the Continue Reading

5 Lessons Gardening Can Teach You About Social Media by Margie Clayman

Black Cherry, Floribunda Rose Gagasgarden

About the author Margie Clayman works at her family’s advertising agency, Clayman Advertising, where she represents the 3rd generation! Margie dreams of Gaga’s gardens, but is only an amateur gardener herself. Margie blogs at www.margieclayman.com. 5 Lessons Gardening Can Teach You About Social Media The other day, I was looking Continue Reading

Rose Pruning The Rite of Spring

In May 1913, Igor Stravinsky debuted his ballet The Rite of Spring (watch a YouTube video). Though it is one of Stravinsky’s most famous works, his creation was first met with harsh criticism, negative reviews, and yes – a riot. I put forth to you today that the emotion evoked Continue Reading

Gaga’s Garden Creatures

Plano, Texas, home of Gaga’s urban garden is a microcosm of urban sprawl. One of Dallas largest suburbs, Plano is completely locked in by municipalities and can’t expand. There’s little undeveloped land remaining. This land originally was farm land all the way to the Red River which forms the border Continue Reading

Rosie View for 2011

The award winning film A Room With a View won Best Picture of 1986, National Board of Review. It’s a British 3 time academy award winner about, “when Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr. Emerson and son George step Continue Reading