Giverny, Claude Monet's house & exquisite gardens were absolutely magical! It was one of our favorite stops with our TAUCK riverboat cruise on the Seine in September. There were no water lilies this time of year, but we saw so many other incredible flowers as we walked through the pathways of Monet's many gardens.
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When I was a little girl, around 7 years old, our family went to Bali for Christmas, where we slept in thatch huts on the beach (before the large hotels came). Remember how blissfully one slept as a child? Well, my mother awakened my four brothers and me in the middle of the night and marched us in our pajamas through 4 miles of jungle (or so it seemed), she leading with a flashlight.
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Years ago, the first fall in a new house and garden I was surprised when lots of lilac colored flowers appeared in September. They looked like crocus, but blooming at the wrong time of the year.
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SEARCH is free and open to the public, and will be held again this year on Wednesday, August 1st from 9-11:30 a.m. Hope to see other SLGC members there!
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What is Aquafaba, you ask? Have you ever opened a can of garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas) and drained off that nasty, viscous liquid surrounding the beans? That stuff you poured away – it’s liquid gold!
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As the holidays approach, I start baking. I love to make Springerle, and my favorite mold is a very large one my Mother gave me about 25 years ago. It was made in Germany and features a woman watering her garden.
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As my daughters are now grown, my enthusiasm for holiday decorating has dissipated, to say the least. As the ubiquitous Santas and reindeer are tucked away, my favorite holiday decorations are Simon Pearce hand blown glass evergreens.
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Greetings to the Ladies of the SLGC from hot, humid, and sunstroke-inducing Omaha! Julie Given and I are here at the Shirley Meneice Horticulture Workshop, hosted annually at one or another US public garden or arboretum by the Garden Club of America Horticulture Committee.
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