It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

It's been a while since I've posted, but I've missed sharing some of my garden happenings this past summer. So I'm doing a s...

What might be the worst photo you see from me this summer... ...shows the sorry state of two plants that I thought were invincible.

I've got a problem. It's this hinoki cypress (fernspray cypress?) -- Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides'. It was a perfec...

My garden -- like yours I have to assume -- is full of good and bad this year. Here's an example of good and bad in the same view: ...

Ah, I bet you think I'm talking about something in my garden -- will it survive the heat, or drought, or whatever. Alas, I wish I were t...

We had a storm come through last night. I didn't hear it, but knew it this morning as I looked out the front window... ...at my Pac...

No, I didn't finally get around to cleaning the leaves out of the cactus bed -- it's the Opuntia that was being attacked, not doing...

I grow a few clematis, and for the most part they make me happy -- when the deer don't prune them that is. The one that I grow on my mai...

My first battle with the coconut didn't go too well, and since I was tired of having the partly-open thing on the kitchen counter, I go...

I mentioned a while back that my plumeria seemed to be having trouble, the tiny new leaves turning black and falling off. I've since le...

A severe storm moved across eastern Missouri yesterday, further giving evidence that although the garden enjoyed a mild winter, summer has b...

I've had a few problems in the garden recently. I know we all do, as summertime is often rough on our plants, at least when compared to ...

I have a problem with drooping, floppy plants right now. Everything was fine until the rains started last weekend -- three weeks or more of ...

When temperatures hit 95ºF (35ºC) for several days in a row, you find yourself having to water the potted plants and those just recently put...

I've seen a woodchuck on my driveway the last few days, walking around as if he didn't have a worry in the world. He even turned ove...

Around the St. Louis area, there's not a garden plant that seems as reliable, hardy, even indestructible as Yucca filamentosa. Slowly sp...

One of the first trees to come into flower in the St. Louis area each spring is the Bradford Pear. These trees with their full canopies of w...

Something has been bothering me in the garden for a while, and last evening I finally did something about it. It seems to be such a little t...

I have more questions, some of which I actually need answers to. Let's start with animals. Why is there a baby Northern Cardinal ar...

One of the disadvantages of having a garden full of wildlife is the "wild" part. They just don't seem to understand the limits...