It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

It's an exciting time for me, as my garden is about to have peony blooms in it for the first time ever! These little globes, full o...

I didn't put much effort into decorating the outside of the house for the holidays this year. Most years I hang some lights, mainly be...

If you read my blog regularly, you'll know that I like to try new plants every year. For me the potential in a new seed packet or even a...

Last year when writing about how these large ants always take over one of my hummingbird feeders , I got some good suggestions about how to ...

I've been growing cardoon for five or six years now, hoping each year that the plants reach the size and impressive form of the ones I g...

When I added a couple of new hummingbird feeders earlier this summer in an effort to get the hummers to settle down a little and share , I m...

When winter starts getting to me, there are a few things I can do. 1) I can go to my growing table in the basement and get a fix of green. T...

This is one of the first bamboos I planted, in the spring of 2007. It's "Yellow Groove" bamboo (Phyllostachys aureosulcata) an...

As mentioned yesterday, I found a few interesting photos of insects and spiders from last summer, and I want to share them with you now. I...

The other morning there was some sort of bone on my driveway, apparently garbage-picked from my neighbor's trashcan and left by raccoons...

When you spend a lot of time in the garden, one thing you'll start to notice (hopefully) is the abundance of wildlife that surrounds you...

The next thing I did Saturday afternoon was dismantle my temporary greenhouse. I knew this was going to be somewhat of a difficult job, but ...