April Coker, Author

Tag: gardening

  • FOLK Magazine 2013 Journal Challenge: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, DOES your garden grow?

    This week’s journal challenge is tough.  What do I intend to plant in my garden–what flowers, vegetables, herbs?  Research them and find out what grows best in my area. . .   Yeah, right.  What grows in my “garden” this year will be what I have already planted and what I will buy in pots.…

  • AT HOME MONDAY: Remember that lantana?

    Remember that day when I showed you how I (or my mother) planted a special lantana flowering plant in my backyard and bordered it with old bicycle rims?  My sister who now lives in Indiana sent it to me as a get well gift after my hysterectomy in May.  It started life in a plastic…

  • AT HOME MONDAY: Autumn dreams. . .

    Will autumn EVER get here?  As a former teacher,  I would never have said those words because they meant wishing for school to start!  Although I generally enjoyed returning to school every August, a few more weeks of vacation would have certainly been welcome. . . Now, all I can think of is cooler temperatures…