It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

After losing power for about 20 hours after yesterday's intense storms (crazy winds, torrential rain, hail) things are almost back to no...

This summer I traded some muscle power for clay pots -- terracotta of many different sizes. There are two or three dozen of them, in...

I've had these little bistro tables for years. You may know that I've recently been taking a closer look at them -- I've had to ...

A package arrived yesterday containing something great. Here's what it looks like after I took it out of the box: Can you guess wha...

Remember my terra cotta bird planter? It's lived on my deck for the past five years or longer, holding cold-hardy succulents while ...

A little over a week ago I did my patio chair makeover test , where I covered a bleh metal chair with cedar to give it new life. At that sam...

I'm paying more attention to the containers I place on my deck this year. I've also been keeping an eye out for pots that are decent...

I'm finally getting to some projects that don't involve cleaning or digging! I've had a couple of strawberry pots for several ye...

The local nursery visits continue... Remember when I showed you Zick's Great Outdoors? That was a one-of-a-kind place, and on that sam...

I have a few questions that I thought I'd ask you about. The first is "what?" -- or more precisely, "what to do?" ...

There are pros and cons to flying into an airport that is surrounded by thunderstorms. On the positive side you get to see some really great...

As you may know, this past Sunday my garden was one of 46 on the St. Louis Sustainable Backyard Tour . The 75-100 visitors who saw my yard h...

Even though spring-like weather is taking its time arriving this year, I still get the itch to go to garden centers to see what's availa...

On my nursery visit last weekend I saw some great stuff: dozens of heucheras , lots of perennials just starting to emerge , color . I also s...

This is the first year I've ever tried growing potatoes. From what I read it's a dead-simple crop to grow, and many people grow them...

There's so much to like about my new front walkway : the stones, the dozens of new plants, the fact that I can walk to the street withou...

As summer marches on and my wishlist of projects grows -- with items being added more quickly than I can take them off -- the last thing I n...

Another day with some random garden observations, thoughts, and photos. I haven't done this for a while, but it's time. Starting wit...

I didn't intend to do three posts in a row about pots, but today I leave you with this: I found this at a local Lowe's (where I g...

Oh, I feel so stupid today. Sad too. You probably know that I have many pots in my yard, made from many different materials: glazed ceramic,...