Chicken Fricassee is French for "browned and served with sauce." It's a simple dish, very filling and delicious. It happened to be Abraham Lincoln's

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Bachelor's button, also known as "cornflower", is drought tolerant and needs little pampering. Flowers are great for cutting or drying and the edible petals are beautiful sprinkled on a salad. Bachelor's button will "naturalize"; it self-sows for another crop of flowers the following season, and birds love the seed heads! Attracts pollinators and beneficial insects.

Garden designer Angel Collins runs us through the basics of garden design, and what to bear in mind when planning a garden from scratch.

In 1977 a giant bird attacked and tried to carry away a ten year old boy in central Illinois in front of multiple witnesses. Actually, two giant birds attacked, but only one tried to carry the kid …

"QUICK BUY" License Options City Twitchers Garden; flowerbed with Agapanthus 'White heaven', Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nymphe', Campanula persicifolia Alba; Digitalis purpurea Albiflora, Hosta 'Fire and ice', Lamium maculatum 'White Nancy' against white rustic wooden wall with bird houses.- Designer: Sarah Keyser; Sponsor: Living Landscapes; RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2015 All images featured on the website are © Joanna Kossak. You are free to use my images only on Pinterest.

A good reference book on birdhouses is "Best-Ever Backyard Birding Tips," by Deborah L. Martin and Rodale Garden Books, 2008; $19.95. To order, visit rodalestore.com or call (800) 848-4735. Want a bird's-eye view of one of nature's most-loved creatures without...

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source: scanned image from Victoria April 1995 In observance of Earth Day I am doing an ode to gardening. I fondly remembered the old Victoria magazine's features on gardening and decided to dig them out and see what images I could come up with. I have tore out these features and long since thrown the magazines away. If I knew the the date of the feature I have posted it here as the source, otherwise I don't know the date. source: scanned image from Victoria magazine This was from the magazine and it was also the cover of the magazine. If ever I get to visit England I would love to see a cottage like this. Isn't this rose bush magnificent! source scanned image from Victoria magazine Victoria magazine often took us to England. Here we get a bird's eye view of a spectacular manor house walled garden. source: scanned image Victoria magazine This image is one of the inspirations for my own kitchen garden. Here is a herb garden right out the kitchen door at another manor house. source: scanned image Victoria magazine Always enchanted by a path in a garden. source: image scanned from Victoria magazine Jan. '91 Victoria did many features on white long before I ever remember anyone else showing it. Here they featured an all white garden. source: image scanned from Victoria magazine Jan. '91 The white garden at night becomes a magical place as a moonlit garden. Now, here in my own yard the plants have been spilling over the walk and the flower border with abandon. I just this year have a rose garden. You don't have to spend a lot of money to have roses. I picked these roses up at Walmart last year. I would get a rose every week with the groceries. They only cost around $4 and some change a piece. I have four rose bushes and they have really been beautiful this week. Right out the back door in a shrub a mother robin has taken up residence to raise her young. Not wanting to disturb the nest, I stuck the camera above my head and aimed and caught a peak at the beautiful eggs. Sherry I will join: Show off Your Cottage Monday at The House in the Roses Seasonal Sundays at The Tablescaper Say G'Day Saturday at Natasha in Oz A Return to Loveliness at A Delightsome Life Your Cozy Home Party at Cozy Home Scenes

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Greetings everyone! I hope you're all doing well and feeling great! Damn, is that too cheery? Currently I am feeling a burning in my left nostril. It is the after affect of making my inaugural vinagre, which is a Puerto Rican homemade hot sauce (I think) or flavoring. I found the recipe at the blog of Daisy Martinez, here. Even though I used gloves to handle the chilis, somehow my nostril must have been contaminated. We'll see if I can utilize this condiment; my version made a lot more than the quart indicated in the recipe. The last few days have been interesting as I have been HOME ALONE! R traveled to Palm Springs, California for work on Thursday, and returns tonight. I was very mad that he got to go to Cali, especially while I'm otherwise free. But the plane ticket for me to join him was $1,000 or something stupid. In my research of Palm Springs, I discovered that the state bird of California is the California quail. This tied in nicely with the pheasants we saw over Christmas in Wisconsin. We were on our way to A and T-Dogg's house when I took a wrong turn on a country road. Thankfully it was a beautiful sunny day, and we spotted a group of pheasants spanning a farm side road. One of the pheasants had lost a race with another car, however! But the rest moved out of the way as we turned around and went in the right direction. So, today we will learn about pheasants and quail! The California quail, Callipepla california: Isn't he cute?! More familiar to you may be this species; the bobwhite quail native to the Upper Midwest, Colinus virginianus: (Obviously appearance in California is more important than in the Midwest!) Bobwhites, as bobwhite quail are otherwise known, are given that name because of their distinctive call. These birds range from Ontario to Central America. They are about six to seven inches tall and weigh around six ounces. Males are larger and more distinctively marked with black and white, like the photo above, while females are more drab in color. Quail especially like areas that are freshly burned for foraging. They need some type of brushy or forest cover. Along with seeds, nuts, fruits and plants, bobwhites eat a lot of insects. Quail usually travel in a covey of five to 30 birds, which disperse into pairs during the mating season in April. The quail pair off into a territory of their own and build a nest within dry plant matter, where 12 to 14 white eggs are laid. It seems more than one female may lay eggs in any particular nest. Males assist with the incubation, and the chicks leave the nest 24 hours after they are hatched. In fact, chicks are independent after two weeks. About half of quail chicks survive their first year. Maybe R and I should raise baby quail chicks in our apartment this spring? Unlike quail, which have New World (the two species above) and Old World species, pheasants are natives of Asia! Because they're adaptable and fun to hunt, pheasants were introduced all over the world, first reaching the United Kingdom in the 10th century. They died out there eventually but were reintroduced for hunting. The first pheasants arrived in the United States in 1857. They've also been carried to New Zealand, Hawaii and Chile, among other places. Bigger than quail, pheasants are around 20 to 30 inches long, with a tail measuring 12 inches or more. They weigh between one and six pounds. Along with plant matter, pheasants eat a lot of snakes, lizards, insects and small mammals. Pheasants live in loose groups and nest in a similar way to quail, although with pheasants there is more of a harem system with one rooster and several hens. A pheasant nest. It seems like pheasant chicks stay in a family group until they're about full grown at five weeks. Mama and babykins. At night or in inclement weather, pheasants roost in trees. They're short distance fliers, usually attaining an airspeed of 27 to 38 miles per hour. But as hunters know, a fleeing pheasant can fly up to 60 mph. Often dogs are trained to flush out the birds, which make a distinctive whirring sound as they fly up out of cover. This male pheasant looks ticked off! This pheasant chick looks adorable! Because of their status as game birds, both pheasants and quail are raised in farms. It seems most pheasants in England are propagated in captivity, and usually don't survive more than a year in the wild. Most pheasants in the U.S., however, are feral birds. With the decline of farmland, pheasants are becoming threatened in some areas. Most states only allow roosters to be shot. (Any hunters want to confirm this?) Natural enemies of pheasants and quail include hawks, owls, foxes, skunks, raccoons, snakes and opossum. Eggs and chicks are especially vulnerable to attack. I'm just picturing the covey of quail that we really should get this spring. They can roost in a basket hung on R's clothes rack, we can feed them toast crumbs and they can peck our floors clean, and then the chicks will follow us as we walk around the block! Do you have any quail or pheasant stories? Guard your nostrils from the chili peppers, Wendell!

Cottage style gardens are wildly popular today and tend to be lower maintenance than their formal counterparts. See how easy it is to add cottage style.

The first time I looked at Stephen Gill’s photographs, I was shaken. I’d never seen birds in this way before, as if on their own terms, as independent creatures with independent lives.

There are only so many hours in the day following a Chelsea Flower Show, and much to my chagrin I did not get around to writing about Hay Joung Hwang’s debut show garden in 2016. There…

a herbatous border near the palm house in kew

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"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess) "As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive." — Frances Hodgson Burnett "However many years she lived, Mary always felt that she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess) "Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess) "She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden) "Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes." — Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess)

On a waterfront stretch of Long Island, architect Bill Ryall devises an elegant, eco-friendly house to withstand the worst

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Barbets are a group of medium sized, chunky, generally colorful, frugivorous, hole-nesting near-passerines, that are popular targets for anyone birding in the tropics. They occur in three biogeographic regions; the Neotropic, Afrotropic and Indo-Malaya ecozones, basically tropical South and Central America, Africa south of the Sahara and tropical Asia. Originally they were all placed in

The first time I looked at Stephen Gill’s photographs, I was shaken. I’d never seen birds in this way before, as if on their own terms, as independent creatures with independent lives.

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from fabulousfifi.typepad.com I have a yucky cold and planted myself on the sofa today and got lost in Pinterest again. :) I love this nest in a basket that I saw there. I often have a bird make a nest in my hanging flower baskets so why not just hang out a basket for them? If I hung it on the back porch it would be easy to see and too high for the cats. I could even put some nest making start stuff inside. It would kind of be like a house warming gift. ha. ♥