It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Relieved of its heavy coat of netted leaves that is! I recently talked about how easy it was to protect the pond this year due to its being...

The leaves have mostly all fallen now, but a week or two ago there were some great splashes of color in my garden. In fact, it seemed to me ...

When I worked on the pond this spring to fix some leaks, it got quite a bit smaller. I knew this would help once fall came, as keeping the ...

Just a tidbit, a morsel or two to let you know that I'm still here, and still planning on posting more regularly. (I have a big backlog ...

This is the time of year when parts of my garden surprise me. It's as if I don't really see what's there until some of the surro...

Things are so busy right now, writing these blog posts gets a lower priority -- hence the skipped days. It's a bit disappointing as I...

Last weekend I visited the small pecan farm that supplies our pecans for the bakery. McGraw Hilltop Pecan Farm is located in St. Charles co...

I don't think there's more I can say today... ...than "A w nuts! " It actually makes me feel a little better saying t...

I've been showing you my castor bean plants a lot in the last few months, with good reason -- they're really amazing this year! Toda...

Fall is a great time for my garden, as the tree-shed leaves enhance the shorter bamboos that I grow. I love the combination of the gree...

I always have mixed emotions about going out into the garden after the first hard freeze -- and we had a hard one on Saturday. After previou...

For most of us, autumn means color. We look for it, remark on it, share it. Why is color so important to us, especially at this time of year...

At about this time last year I posted about mold .  Let's talk about it again today, but from a slightly different angle.

I've been hearing that this winter in the Midwest ( remember that I'm in St. Louis ) has a high probability of being a mild one. As ...

The leaves are falling in my garden, which makes me happy in some ways and sad in others. Rather than lament the end of the growing season, ...

I'm on the road today, but thought I would show you some of my favorite views of my garden before autumn eats it. Not really a tour...

I'm quite happy with the Alocasias this year: There are two main plants there, although both have multiple pups now. So full, so pe...

I started out this morning intending to just take a few photos of the Persicaria bloomss that were just being hit by the right type of morni...

Hello polar vortex! Displaced again, are you? The middle of the country is getting an early taste of what will probably be another harsh win...