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“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” Helen Hunt Jackson As...

Share “Failure is fertilizer. Throw your mistakes on the compost pile and grow a new garden.” Cynthia Brian Summer can be a challenging...

Share “These boots are made for walkin’ And that’s just what they’ll do.” Nancy Sinatra Growing up on the ranch, cowboy boots were...

“… with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar...

By Cynthia Brian “After women, flowers are the loveliest thing God has given the world.”– Christian Dior Springtime in California is...

More photos at https://cynthiabrian.substack.com/p/fruits-of-our-labor ? “ It is wonderful to have a piece of land on which one can...

By Cynthia Brian   “As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream,...

“It’s the time you spend on your rose that makes it so important… You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re...

“ The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.” ~ Sydney J. Harris     January, the month of winter sleep, offers gardeners the...

https://cynthiabrian.substack.com/p/all-i-want-for-christmas “Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon...

Digging Deep with Goddess Gardener, Cynthia Brian Waiting for Rain By Cynthia Brian   “You’ll never find rainbows if you are looking...

“I go to visit the chrysanthemums. They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.” Comte Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel...

By Cynthia Brian   “Magnificent Autumn… It is the funeral anthem of the dying year.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   When I was young, I was...

"We are part of the earth, and it is part of us… the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers.” – Chief Seattle.     Now...

Digging Deep with Goddess Gardener, Cynthia Brian   Prescription to Plant By Cynthia Brian   “Gardening is a way of showing that you...

“Nature loves to hide.” Heraclitus In the winter, these ladies are wrapped in lush green manteaus that glisten in the rain. When warmer...

“With gratitude, optimism is sustainable.” Michael J. Fox Here we go again. Every year the Garden Media Group scouts global consumer...

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere we go, lights...

“Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day! Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the autumn...

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”  Henry Ward Beecher Finally my trees and shrubs have donned their fiery...