Hallson Gardens

Wonderful! Love your pics.....thanks so much for sharing!.......Pam

These are gorgeous! Are these pics from magazines?.....P

What lovely baskets! I love imagination...and you've surely shown YOURS! Thanks for sharing.....Pam

What a wonderful treat to visit your gardens! I have to admit, I probably stayed a little longer than I thought I would...but you have such great "stuff" there! Thanks for the invite! It was interesting that most of your butterflies are like those I find here...but the coloring of your BIRDS surpris...

Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.....my feeders are usually visited by several pair of cardinals early morning and early evening. This year, I've only noticed 2 female......p

Love your pics! I caught 2 in my feeders the other morning. I tapped on the bathroom window...then had to laugh at the broad jumps each one took to push themselves away from the feeders. I wonder what my neighbor thought about ME standing inside at the window with my elbow on the sill...waving my ha...

I have one of these fellas visiting my suet this year too for the first time! He's so similiar to our summertime flickers in size and shape, he tricked me the first time I spotted 'im! He's been a regular..along with some downy and hairy woodpeckers, and doesn't seem to mind me peering out the windo...

These nervous little fellas are one of my favorites! I received 2 more wren houses for Christmas this year...love 'em in the gardens! Wonderful pics! Pam

This is an awesome recipe! I have made it 3 times...for potlucks...and the requests for sharing the recipe are amazing! Everyone loves it! It goes together quickly and makes a nice presentation.

Thanks so much for posting this.......pam

Hmmm....one of my favorite ferns! I'd at least give it a fightin' chance by carefully trimming back the long fronds that are attached to the round discs at the base. Water 'im good, and see if there is still any life left. I left 2 of my gigantic Christmas cacti out one year in the frosty temps...th...

I've seen a ton of wedding cakes in my 40+ career as a florist......that one is truly a BEAUTY!

I love the idea of the Canadian/English leaves...the care and love put into each seperate leaf is very obvious...thanks for sharing it with us!......Pam

Beautiful tree! The leaves look like one we get in the floral industry called "seeded euc."

There's quite a variety of eucalyptus available...each has that familiar "vick's" smell! Love the frosty color on the leaves!..................p

AHA! She's picked the perfect thing that is getting popular in the Floral Industry! Foliage! Hosta leaves do great in arrangements...they last well in both Oasis and water if "hardened up" before using. (Just need to be cut and put into deep warm water the day before using!) One new trend that I'm s...

Oh Karma! You're wetting my appetite for MORE daturas next year! Last summer I grew those lovely triple lavender...and forgot to gather seed in the fall. This Spring...I was excited to find 3 tiny seedlings in the same area! Those plants are as tall as me now...and the blossoms have been spectacular...

Sure are beautiful blossoms! We have a hardy variety at school...growing up some netting on one of the ghse. It used to be so much more prolific...this year little of it actually appeared!

Love those unusual flowers! thanks for sharing..........p

YUP! It's time to trick them into thinking the days are SHORT and the nights are LONG!! We'll start putting black cloths over our 2,000 poinsettias in the school greenhouses on Monday. This should be started on the Fall Equinox. It takes about four weeks of covering them from late afternoon to late ...

I love how gardeners seem to have such great imaginations! Those must be the stay-men!!......p

Wanna know my secret?!? :o On some of those first warm spring nights when the frogs start their beautiful chorus...if I see a toad in the road...I carefully pull over and go back and grab 'im!! Too many get splattered...I feel I'm saving their little lives...and my gardens become good homes to them!...

:o Did we ever get hit last night! Golfball sized hail preceded a huge storm in our SE Michigan corner! (Chris, Brian...you O.K.??) Leaves are covering the lawn...flowers stripped and torn laying down in all the gardens... :( I wonder what the farmers pumpkins will end up looking like in Oct.! My ho...

Hmmm....if you google "fire ants" and look at the images...there are quite a few pics that look just like your little fella! Michigan still won't admit we have cougars/panthers yet either...but we do! When I was a youngin'...I remember our cat brought up a chipmunk that looked different. Dad looked ...