Hello, Fellow Lovers of All Things Green,
Welcome to Mary Stone’s Garden Dilemmas Podcast.
It’s not only about gardens. It’s about nature’s inspiration, grasping the glories of the world around us, gathering what we learn from Mother Nature, and carrying these lessons to the garden of life.
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Enjoy the companion story Benefits of Plantain and Dandelion “Weeds” Links to the companion stories Jefferson’s Monticello Lab for Plants and Castor Bean Plants Hide Uglies Links to the related stories Reasons to Prune and Rejuvenation Pruning & Smokebush. Enjoy the companion post about Root Pruning and a Journey of Growth. Links to the related stories Early Spring Transplants and Spring Garden Honey-dos Link to the companion story Relocating Honeybees – Being Kind Links to related stories Planning an Alpine Garden and Deer-Resistant Spring Blooming Bulbs Link to the companion story St. Patrick and the Legend of Clover Straw Bale Gardening Builds Community and Vegetable Gardening Basics. Enjoy the Companion Post Anatomy & Array of Beautiful Bark with links to the trees. Enjoy the Companion Story Meaning of Roses & Valentine Traditions Links to the companion stories A Money Tree Brings Abundance and Houseplants in Duress Turn Happy Enjoy the related stories A Special Sedum & Succulent Garden and Pallet Garden & AC Screen Links to the related stories Festive Partridge Berry and Terrariums – a Mini Garden Warmup Enjoy the Companion Story Sowing the Treasures of Buckeye Seeds Link to the Companion Story Berries for Winter Beauty and Wildlife and She’s a Beautyberry Enjoy the Companion Story Essential Nutrients for Gardens & Life Link to the Companion Story A Long Winter’s Nap Enjoy the Companion stories Legend of Holly & Christmas Trees and Repurposing Christmas Trees Link to the Companion Story Honey Locust the Porcupine of Trees Enjoy the Companion Story Overwintering Potted Perennials Link to the related stories Giving Thanks for Nature’s Gifts and Winter Decorating with Roadside Finds Link to the companion story Significance of Veterans Day Poppies Links to Companion Stories Avis Campbell Gardens Wheel of Life and Doggone Dogwood Disease Link to the Companion Story Ripening Fall Tomato Hand-me-Downs Enjoy the Companion Story Shagbark Hickory and Mast Years Links to the related stories Inconsistency over Pond vs. Lake and Safe Havens of Vernal Ponds Enjoy the companion story Worrisome Beech Leaf Disease Link to the related story Saving Snapping Turtles Lifts Spirits Enjoy he Companion Story Women & Their Woods with Native Plants. Links to related stories Why Some Trees Remain Evergreen and Fall Needle Drop of Renewal. Enjoy the companion story A Sunflower Maze Brings Happiness. Links to the related stories – Late-Season-Bloomers, Is Goldenrod Invasive?, Goldenrod’s Bad Reputation Enjoy the companion story Moths and Bats are Beautiful, Too Link to the related story Keeping Lighting Pollinator-Friendly Enjoy the companion story Rescuing Aloe Plants Helps Heal Link to the companion story Admiration for Ants & Safe Remedies Enjoy the related stories A Magical Blessing Moth and About Bottle Trees Link to a companion story, “Wild” Bachelor Buttons Links to the companion stories Bottlebrush Buckeyes Hide Tree Knees and Spruce Disease Dilemmas Link to the companion stories Deer Dilemmas & Safe Deterrents and Feeding Deer Promotes Disease Enjoy the companion story Great-Horned Owl meets Hawk Link to the related story, the Oxymoron of Seedless Watermelon Enjoy the companion story Seeds Rooted in Love Link to the related column Are Funky Vegetables Organic? Enjoy the companion story A Seal Pup Surprise Links to the related story Let Fawns & Wildlife Be the Gifts of Nature with a story of our family history of plant pilfering. Links to the related story Flowers & Meaning of Memorial Day Enjoy the related stories Managing Wisteria, Mending Fences with Forsythia, and Wisteria Reflections on Invasiveness Links to related stories Value of Virginia Creeper vs. Poison Ivy and Removing Poison Ivy without Chemicals Related stories you’ll enjoy Mile-a-Minute Weed Remedies and Dear-Resistant Butterfly Plants Link to the related story Rejuvenation Pruning Lifts Hearts Related stories you’ll enjoy Giving Thanks, and Carpenter Bees are Essential Pollinators Link to the related story Spring Unfolding is Happiness Enjoy the related stores No-Mow May helps Pollinators and to Lime or Not to Lime Lawns Related stories you’ll enjoy A Successional Forest of Growth and Flora and Reflections from Blue Mountain Lake Link to the related story Woodcock Dance – Making a Meadow Enjoy the related story Antics of Meadow Wildlife Link to the related story Wonders of Witch Hazel Enjoy the related stories Winter Flowers and Folklore and March Folklore of Hope Links to related stories Etiquette of Pilfering Rocks and Tripod Rock Enjoy the related stories Mending Fences with Forsythia, Forsythia Hedge at Hospice, and Forsythia, not Blooming? Link to the related story Colors in Gardens and Our Lives. Enjoy the related stories Starting an Organic Garden, Vegetable Gardening Basics, and Starting a No-Till Garden. Link to the related story Cycles in our Garden of Life Enjoy the related stories The Secret Life of Pinecones and Flora & Reflections from Blue Mountain Lake Link to related stories Snow Geese Teach Acceptance and Swarming Common Grackles Enjoy the related story Woodpeckers & Healing Sounds of Nature Link to the related story Wisdom in the Rhythm of Water Enjoy the associated columns Insights and Interdependence of Trees and Tickle and Rub Mycorrhizae Enjoy the related story Gentle Strength of Umbrella Pine Links to the related stories Holiday Decoration Reflections and Ball and Burlap vs. Potted Trees Enjoy the related story Enduring Hope of Ginkgo Trees Link to the related story Winter Season of Growth Enjoy the related story, The Fall of the Leaf Links to the related stories What’s a Pawpaw Tree? and Planting Pawpaw Seeds. Enjoy the related stories Bulbs to Extend Spring Blooms and Phil’s Squirell Dilemma Links to the related stories Halloween History & Sycamore Ghosts and The Legend of Marigolds in the Day of the Dead. Enjoy the related story Fall Needle Drop of Renewal You’ll enjoy the related story Boxwood Dilemmas & Garden Delights Enjoy the companion stories – Giant Puffball Mushrooms and Fairy Rings Link to the companion column Mary Reynolds and Nurturing Nature Enjoy the related story Designing Garden Layers Link to the related column Native Plants for Native PollinatorsYou’ll enjoy the companion story Delights in my Dry Summer Garden
enjoy the related story Beauty & Beast of Roses Links to the associated stories Fall Webworms vs. tent Caterpillars and Rose is a Rose Pest Remedies Enjoy the associated column Planting a Steep Woodland Garden Link to the companion story Origin of Dog Days & Sweating like a Pig You’ll enjoy the companion stories, the Gift of Meadows & Mountain Mint, and A Walk in the Meadow Link to the related story Sharing Garden Blessings with Rosemary You’ll enjoy the companion story Chipmunk Remedies & Legends Link to the related story Safely Controlling Japanese Beetles Enjoy the companion story Visions of the Red-Shouldered Hawk Link to the related story Nature’s Magical Landscape of Renewal You’ll enjoy the companion story Knotweed meets Crown Vetch Link to the companion story Treasured Tulip Trees Link to the related column Watering New Plant Babies Enjoy the companion stories Memorial Day of Remembrance & Hope, History of Veterans Day Poppies, Meaning of Memorial Day – A Little Hope Link to related column Flora & Reflections from Blue Mountain Lake Links to companion stories Mystery of Mutating Alberta Spruce, Doublefile Viburnum Angels, and Lesson of the Leaf I invite you to the companion story Repurposing Pots & Bags into Benches Link to the related column Reverting Weeping Cherry I invite you to visit the related column Sharing Comfort & Perennials Link to the related Forsythia Hedge at Hospice Links to companion columns Easter Pussy Willows and Rooting & Planting Willows Branches Links to related columns Favorite Plants between Steppingstones and Lotus Effect I invite you to the related column Safely Clean Stone Patios You’ll enjoy the companion columns Let Lichen & Moss Be, Removing Moss Madness, and Liking Lichen & Moss Link to the related column Love Gardening – Love Yourself I invite you to visit the related column Personal Growth with Houseplants Link to the companion column, the Joy of Receiving Cut Flowers I invite you to visit the related column Beloved Beech Trees Link to the companion column Growing Hope-The Book of Hope I invite you to visit the related column Birch Tree’s Strength in Flexibility Link to the related story A Magical Avocado Tree Enjoy the companion column Inventorying Gardens and our Lives Link to the related column about the Coretta Scott King Forest You’ll enjoy the companion column Sprouting Avocado Seeds in Water Link to the companion column Plants Inspire -Turning over a New Leaf I invite you to visit the related column Merry Season of Love over Fear Links to related columns Sow Good Services and Lessons from Woman with Flower. You’ll enjoy the related columns “Leaf Therapy” fills Emptiness and Native Plants, especially Oaks, are Essential Links to the related columns – Forest Bathing and Wandering Willowwood Arboretum I invite you to visit the associated columns: Growing HOT Peppers into Cool Jelly, Brood-X Cicada 2021 Recap, and What are Worm Castings? Link to related columns: Fruits & Veggies near Black Walnut, Juglone Companions Plants, and Fascinating Anomaly of Fasciation I invite you to visit the related columns Do Cave Crickets Benefit the Garden? and Mayapple of my Eye You’ll enjoy the related columns Attracting Toads to your Garden, Frog Watch USA, and Healing in the Garden of Life Click through to the related columns Reasons to Prune, Castor Bean Plants Hide Uglies, and Beneficial Ladybugs Enjoy the related columns Three Sisters Gardening & Jolee’s Emergency and No-Till Gardening and Starting a No-till Garden I invite you to visit the associated columns Skunk Cabbage Appeal and Rhubarb Edible vs. Ornamental. I invite you to visit the related columns March Folklore of Hope, Planting Following Nature, and Counting Mississippi Grounding. Links to related columns Baobab Tree of Life and Helping River’s Edge Horse Rescue You’ll enjoy the related columns Better than Twenty-Twenty and Foxes in the Garden I invite you to visit the corresponding columns History & Legend of Poinsettias and Poinsettia Varieties Click through to the related columns titled What’s in Store? Lessons from Frosty and Thanks for Giving Thanks I invite you to read the associated columns Spruce Disease Dilemmas and A Forest Pansy Redbud of Hope I invite you to read the full story about my Unexpected Furry Messenger and Father John’s Animal House Memorial Garden Click through to the correlating columns Turtle Island and Ugly Slug Remedies I invite you to visit the related columns titled Queen Anne’s Lace Anomaly, “Wild” Bachelor Buttons, and Weeding Mugwort – Picking up Litter Click through to the related column Hospice Butterfly Release I invite you to visit the associated columns One World / Memorial Day and Robins of Renewal in the Garden Click through to related columns: Litter of Tree Tips, History & Meaning of Mother’s Day, and Shopping for Annuals Click through to related columns of this episode, click through to Easter Wisdom from Mettler’s Woods, and Easter Blessings I invite you to click through to the related column Lesson of the Leaf Links to related columns Garden Magic and Magnificent Moss I invite you to visit the associated columns The Magic of Seeds and We’re All Just Seeds I invite you to visit the related columns, Patridge Berry, Beaver or Woodchuck? and Groundhog or Woodchuck Dilemma? I invite you to visit the corresponding columns Clearing Space, About Bottle Trees, and Christmas Reflections from Texas Links to related columns Decorating with Leave Behinds, Blackberry Lily & Soil Remediation, and Sharing Thanks & Late Fall To-dos I invite you to visit the related columns Swarming Common Grackles, Why Critters Cross the Road and Thanksgiving Blessings I invite you to visit the associated columns Chasing Rainbows & Leaves and Why Leaves Change Color 101 I invite you to visit the related columns – Burl Marx – NY Botanical Gardens, and Vitamin Packed Leaf Confetti I invite you to visit the associated columns Sweet Autumn Clematis and Rainwater (& Snow) Harvesting I invite you to visit the corresponding columns Cicadas Sing ‘Back to School’ and Gardens Glow I invite you to visit the related columns Clover Lawn Alternative and The Bird & Bees of Zucchini Flowers I invite you to visit the associated columns The Legend of Marigolds and About Mary Stone