Uncle Sam, That's Who I Am
ONE SUMMER WHEN the kids were young, we decided to take a different kind of vacation. We had done the Alabama and Florida beach thing. We...
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LIFE'S A GARDEN
Musings About Family, Travel And Gardening With Allen Martinson.
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- Mar 10, 2022
- 8 min
Growing in all Directions
THE PEOPLE OF Mississippi have spoken. A medical marijuana program is being put into place as I write this. There is so much work to be...
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martinsonsgw
- Mar 5, 2022
- 7 min
Einstein
LOOKS TO ME LIKE things are about to get real around the Mississippi gardening world. This week’s temperatures are hovering around the...
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martinsonsgw
- Feb 26, 2022
- 6 min
Garden Clubs Are The Best
AT GARDEN WORKS we have two rooms we have made available to garden clubs to hold their meetings. When the covid came around the garden...
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martinsonsgw
- Feb 19, 2022
- 7 min
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree
I CAN REMEMBER when I was in the third grade and going to St. Richard’s catholic school my father came home with the news that we were...
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martinsonsgw
- Feb 11, 2022
- 6 min
Got Those Roses Ordered Dummies?
FEBRUARY IS A MONTH I eagerly await as far as getting back into the yard. I have to admit I’ve been pretty lax in my yard since around...
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martinsonsgw
- Feb 4, 2022
- 7 min
It's Not Good to Fool Mother Nature
I WAS THINKING about a trip Mimi and I took to Jamaica. We were ready for a break and our slow season had arrived. By that time we had...
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martinsonsgw
- Jan 21, 2022
- 9 min
Easy Pets
WHEN I THINK ABOUT all the different aspects of garden centers I realize that tropical plants are one of my favorite categories. I am...
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martinsonsgw
- Jan 14, 2022
- 5 min
Let's Go Yurting Mississippi
IT FEELS LIKE THE Mississippi winter has finally arrived. Our plants outside were growing just like it was springtime just before New...
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martinsonsgw
- Dec 31, 2021
- 7 min
What Just Happened?
WE CAN CALL IT ANOTHER year in the books. Christmas is behind us with this week of further languishing and trying not to look at the...
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martinsonsgw
- Dec 28, 2021
- 6 min
Deep Christmas
BY THE TIME you read this it’s going to be what I call “Deep Christmas.” Deep Christmas is when it’s really getting late to be finding...
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martinsonsgw
- Dec 18, 2021
- 5 min
Time to Get Serious
IT SEEMS LIKE THIS is the week that things get kind of serious. We know all year long that Christmas is coming every year. This is when...
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