It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Looking out of the kitchen window a week or two ago (the days seem to be flying by this year!) I watched a deer browsing near one of my gard...

Sorry for the late post today, but it's been a long week. I noticed this flower the other day before it was fully opened, and it looks e...

Three of my coneflower plants produced flowers that were quite strange. When I posted about this earlier this year , I was informed in the c...

I mentioned one of my unusual coneflower plants a week or two ago when I took a look at the echinacea in my garden. Since then a few more g...

Cicada season is winding down, Japanese beetle season is starting up, and the heat and humidity of this last day of spring have me completel...

I've grown echinacea purpea or "purple coneflowers" for years. They're beautiful, bee magnets, bulletproof in the heat, fe...

I've been so focused on digging lately: digging up weedy beds, planting in the refreshed beds, wondering what animal has been digging up...

I've decided what to do with the new coneflowers I bought the other day : they're going in my coneflower bed. (That certainly took ...

Today I had to make a trip to a local material supply/nursery to pick up another load of compost, so I thought I'd make the rounds of th...

One of the first flowering plants I added to my garden was Purple Coneflower, echinacea purpea . Not that I knew anything about it when I ch...