Garden Center TV I’m on my way to Chicago to cover the Independent Garden Center Show.  The “IGC Show” will run from Monday August 19 until Thursday, August 21 and is being touted as the “World’s Largest Garden Center Show,” so…
4 Comments / 348 View / August 18, 2008
One of the most effective tools for losing weight is eating from my vegetable garden. I’ve pushed aside processed food and go “shopping” in my garden for the fresh harvest of the day. My goal is to fill three quarters…
9 Comments / 650 View / August 5, 2008
On my recent trip to Maui, I had the opportunity to witness tropical plants such as bromeliads, heliconias, spathiphyllums, crotons, and cordylines in their natural or “naturalized” habitat. To some of you, these plants are strictly seasonal container plants or…
5 Comments / 1706 View / August 4, 2008
Readers of  EdenMakers Blog can always find me on the garden-focused RSS feed readers such as the social networking destination, Blotanical.com, and GardenWeb.com’s “Voices.” I visit these sites for my daily feed of garden related miscellany and to mix it…
2 Comments / 100 View / August 3, 2008
 I’m not trying to be coy with my post title, there is a reason why I worded it that way. My family, along with our best friends, the Hargraves family, attended a luau in Lahaina where the hosts made a…
4 Comments / 1186 View / July 29, 2008
“Aloha” from Maui. The people, places and plants were gorgeous…but I also have some “dirt” on this island paradise! I’m BACK and still adjusting from the jet lag I experienced returning to Los Angeles from Maui last week. My internal…
8 Comments / 434 View / July 22, 2008
I will miss my Mediterranean style garden when I vacation in Maui, Hawaii this week with my family, especially my pepper tree. I’m hoping my tropical destination will help me forget how I am missing my beautiful “stone-ruin garden”…
15 Comments / 855 View / July 9, 2008
