This Perfectly Imperfect Life

On this Throwback Thursday, I'm taking you back to late February, 2012, in Charleston, SC, where I fell in love with Camellia's for the first time... To further travel along that path with me, click here . 

In honor of today's #plantchat topic on ways of preserving your harvest, I wanted to re-post this 'how to freeze green beans' from my Adventures In Gardening Archives.  And so appropriate as I harvested the first green beans this afternoon! ( #plantchat is hosted by @CoronaTools each Monday afternoon at 2pm est on Twitter). Title:   Preserving The Harvest (What To Do With All Those Beans!) Original Post Date:  Saturday, September 22, 2012 Happy Autumn everyone andwelcome to my first (official) "how-to" Adventures In Gardening! In my last post , I mentioned I was up to my eyeballs in (green) beans this year, so much so that I've been freezing my near daily harvests to enjoy during the colder months. Today I wanted to share with you how easy it is to freeze beans! Let's get started.  Yesterday I used a fresh batch of harvested beans.  (I clip them off right into zip lock bags so they can go right into the fridge if being used that day or the nex...

The post below is from my Adventures In Gardening column archives and originally appeared elsewhere on January 19, 2013. While it has a gardening theme, it is also about falling in love for the first time, although in a perhaps unconventional sense, and it seems fitting to revisit it with Valentines Day arriving a week from today. It is also one of my favorite posts that I have ever written! I've had a follow-up of sorts in the works, which covers my first brief visit to Charleston in 2012 overall. My longing to return to Charleston arrives every February and March now. One day I will get there. Until then I have my memories and my Camellias. Adventures In Gardening: Love Struck! Filed under  #GARDENWALK ,  ADVENTURES IN GARDENING As gardeners, we fall in love over and over again.  Every time we flip through a catalog, make a trip to the nursery, or take a walk in a new garden.  Often, many of these new loves get pushed out of our minds and onto the “...

My gardening memoir column, Adventures In Gardening, is now known as The Portable Homestead!  For today's post, "Spring Cleaning Inside & Out," on Connect*Share*Grow, click here . You can find an Archive of all of my columns to date here on Diggin' Around by clicking here .

La Peppermint Ancient Camellia japonica Happy Valentines one and all! Have you ever been bowled over by something and couldn't get it out of your mind? I hope you'll join me over at Connect*Share*Grow for a special Valentines Day edition of my gardening memoir column, Adventures In Gardening, where I share how my love affair with Camellias began in South Carolina last year. Click here !

For the latest edition of my gardening memoir column,  Adventures In Gardening , now on Connect*Share*Grow , please click here .

Happy Eve before Christmas Eve! I spent much of yesterday, the first full day of Winter, nursing an awful migraine and drinking copious cuppa's of tea while going between our bed & my favorite chair in the living room (where I can gaze upon all of the Christmas decorations).  But the day wasn't a loss: I posted my 24th Adventures In Gardening column on The#gardenchatBlog ! (Next Saturday is my first anniversary of writing my column for the blog!)  I also caught the first glorious moon-rise & sunset of Winter. This morning, after watching CBS News Sunday, a longtime Sunday morning tradition, we got out for a long walk at one of our favorite local parks.  I was resistant at first, wanting to stay snuggled in as the kitties were under the tree this morning. Feeling the cold air and hearing nothing but the wind, our feet on the ground and at times the river sloshing against the banks was exactly what I needed! Especially with this darn migrain...

For the latest edition of my gardening memoir column, Adventures In Gardening, on The#gardenchatBlog, click here .

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For my latest gardening memoir column on the #gardenchat blog , please click here . To scroll through all of my past columns, please visit the Adventures In Gardening archive, by clicking here . Hope to see you there! 

To see and read about how I honor my loved ones in my garden, please click here for my latest Adventures In Gardening column on The #gardenchat Blog . For the archive of all of my Adventures In Gardening column posts to date, please click here .

To read my latest column on The @gardenchat Blog, please click here . Stay tuned to Diggin' Around for a slideshow of snowy Saturday pics!

To read my newest column on The #gardenchat Blog , click here . Don't forget to check out my previous post here on Diggin' Around! Just scroll down.

To read my newest column on The #gardenchat Blog , please click here .

That I am now a writer for The #gardenchat Blog and I've just posted my first Adventures In Gardening column! (Click here to go directly to the post). Again, I'd like to extend my thanks to Brenda of BGgarden and #gardenchat guru extraordinaire for this exciting opportunity and for her friendship & support. I will continue to provide the links for each post on Diggin' Around so be sure to follow me over there! A safe & happy New Year's Eve to all!