The Birthday Tree.

Do you plant birthday trees? I hope you'll join me over at the new Garden Delights blog site, where we're celebrating the beauty of birthday trees. Come on over and join the garden party!

XOXO ~

Julie
 

Sowing Seeds Successfully.

Are you ready to kick winter out of the garden and celebrate spring? I am! I hope you'll join the garden party at my new site, Garden Delights. Today, we're talking about the best seed starting set-ups, when to start seeds, and how to get your seedlings garden-ready to ensure a great harvest. Hope you'll join us! 

http://juliesgardendelights.com

Floral Friday: Countdown to Spring!

Hi, gardening friends! Have you found my new site yet? I hope you'll join the garden party at Garden Delights:

http://juliesgardendelights.com

Today, we're playing a fun game called "Floral Friday." The rules are simple: gather some items from your garden, and make something beautiful to enjoy. Stop by my new site to see what I found in the garden today, then share your own creations on the Garden Delights Facebook page! 

I hope you'll visit my new home. It feels lonely without you!

Happy Gardening!

XOXO ~

Julie

Feed the Monarchs!

Can gardeners save a species? Why yes. I think we can. To find out how, please come over to the new blog site, Garden Delights:

http://juliesgardendelights.com

I hope you'll join the garden party at my new home!

XOXO ~

Julie
 

New Site, New Garden Party!

In case you missed the announcement last week, Growing Days is now Garden Delights. I have a new home, too, after too many Blogger glitches. I hope you'll join 
the garden party at my new place:

http://juliesgardendelights.com

While it might seem like there are lots of changes--new name, new location, a few new party games like "Floral Friday" and a bigger emphasis on enjoying the DELIGHTS of our gardens--the heart of the blog remains the same: 

• Growing Gardens
• Growing Green
• Growing Locavores
• Growing Kids
• Growing One Day at a Time

It's scary making changes, and my new home feels a little lonely. I hope you'll come join the garden party! 

XOXO ~

Julie

Emerging from Hibernation...with a New Baby.

Bears do it. Bees do it. Even our beloved gardens do it. So, if it seems that a certain garden writer also crawled into a den to hibernate for the winter, there's a hint of truth there.

In reality, though, I've been locked in my office, preparing to introduce you to my new baby: a brand new (and, hopefully, improved) blog!

Gone are the days of combatting Blogger's technical glitches. Gone are the funky formatting issues, disappearing posts, and garden writer angst.

Gone, too, is confusion between my business and blog names in social media outlets. Am I Growing Days? Am I Garden Delights?

Who am I?

Instead of debating great existential questions, I finally bit the proverbial bullet:

Welcome to Garden Delights!

I hope you'll make the journey and join the garden party at my new site! (If you'd be so kind to update your bookmarks and follow along over there, I'd be grateful! Change always makes me nervous, but this is a GOOD change. I promise.)

While technically things changed, the content will remain primarily the same:

• Growing Gardens
• Growing Green
• Growing Locavores
• Growing Kids
• Growing One Day at a Time

Lately, though, as I've sat by the fire with a pile of seed catalogs, dreaming of spring, I realized that there's more. I want to showcase the pleasure of the garden, to chat about how we can benefit from the delights our gardens provide. So, look for:

• More delicious (I hope!) recipes, featuring ingredients from CSA baskets, farmers' markets, or your own garden.
• Floral Fridays, where we'll bring seasonal beauty indoors, creating bouquets from the garden to enjoy or to share with a friend.
• Nature nuts, focusing on getting kids out in the forest, splashing in rivers, playing with chickens, or digging in dirt.
• Garden tours, where we visit gardens around the world...and never need to pull a single weed.
• Resource reviews, including the most delightful new books and products I've read or personally tested.

We all know gardening is work--I'm not too Pollyannaish to pretend otherwise. But at the end of the day, when we're sweaty, tired, and have mulch in unmentionable places, isn't the point of it all to savor our Garden Delights?

The snow and ice disappeared from the garden, and the early spring bulbs are bursting into bloom. It seems serendipitous to launch a new gardening site as the daffodils and crocuses awaken, don't you think?

So, thank you, friends, for joining me on the new site. I really hope you do. And welcome new friends. I hope we'll all have great fun together at this little ongoing garden party!

XOXO ~

Julie

P.S. Did I mention there's a new site? :-) Here's the new address for you to copy and paste:

http://juliesgardendelights.com (And, if I happen to be on your blogroll, I'd be SO grateful if you would update the URL. Thank you so much!)