It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

I don't know if it got as cold as they said it would last night, but this morning when I checked it was 0ºF (-18ºC), which is cold enoug...

I look at it all day long through the window, so I don't really get a good sense of how the walkway garden is doing. Sure I see blooms c...

Time to notice some of the color in the garden, mainly from the blooms. Yes, green abounds here, but it's the canvas for the daubs of pi...

My recent walkway project ended for this year once I got all of the perennials planted. It's time to show you what plants I put here to ...

As summer ends, the time for fall harvests quickly approaches. I wouldn't say that I have "crops" to harvest, as my garden isn...

When I was a child, long, long before I was ever interested in plants I remember seeing a plant catalog that my parents received. It probabl...

I have a fascination with the flying nectar-drinkers in my garden. Bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, moths -- I could watch them for hours (i...

Some days you just need to see butterflies. This is one of those days. So here are several photos of a male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail bu...

I've been keeping an eye on the butterflies moving through the yard, in the hopes of seeing something unique, or not as common. I'm ...

As I promised, to help balance out all of the "creepy" posts about insects and spiders I've been doing lately, here's a lo...

Besides being hummingbird season, this time of year is also the best for butterflies in my yard. The butterfly bushes earn their keep and at...

I've got several butterfly bushes in my garden. I have more this year than I did last year. I didn't buy any new ones this year -- ...

This morning was hot. Way too hot and humid to do anything in the garden except walk around looking at everything. Even that wasn't too ...

After a Friday that was sunny and warm (almost 70ºF), it really was not good weather Saturday. Cloudy, cold, windy, and sprinkling rain ever...