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Hi friends! While I am not a huge fan of warm weather and I am allergic to anything and everything that blooms, I’m trying not to let Spring get the best of me. My tulips are huge and still intact, my pink lemon tree has blossoms all over it, and our bay laurel has multiple explosions of new growth. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that I’m better at outdoor gardening than indoor gardening. I have tried multiple times without success to keep a small herb garden indoors and so this weekend we decided to recognize my/our strength and we potted a bunch of herbs and made a little herb garden out of cement blocks and two-by-fours on our patio.

I haven’t fully given up on indoor plants, of course, and earlier this week I bought my first African violets. I’ve a loved one named Violet and my grandmother had a large collection of African violets so I’m going to try my hand at them.