It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

As you probably know, it's been a few years since I've posted anything here. I think it's time I started back up, and let...

I usually avoid putting spoilers into my post titles, but since I post so infrequently these days I thought I'd get right to the point. ...

I haven't been out in the garden too much lately, but as I walked by this bamboo patch I realized something wasn't quite right. ...

A few weekends back we were having some decent temperatures, cooler than normal and breezy, so we decided to take a hike. Technically a driv...

Remember how the stream rebuild unexpectedly turned into a tadpole rescue? Well, it's time for an update on these metamorphosing amphibi...

I think "ootheca" is the perfect word for... well, I'll tell you in a minute if you don't already know. This is one of m...

We're not doing any extended road trip like we did last summer and a few years earlier , but that doesn't mean that we're not g...

I've been doing quite a bit of cleanup in the garden the last week or so, and much of that work involved pulling leftover leaf clutter o...

This is the view of my neighbor's house from my driveway. Why am I showing you this? No, it's not to show a clean, more traditi...

Yes, it seems like we've made it through another winter, but with that title I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking abou...

After a very cold start to January, the pond had a thick layer of ice on it. I can't really say how thick it was (at least 6"/15cm)...

So you may have noticed that the images on most of the posts here (except for a few recent ones) have been replaced with Photobucket's ...

This is my driveway behind the house, as seen from the bedroom window. It's the messiest part of the space because it's where plants...

I neglected my ribbon bush (Homalocladium platycladum) last winter. The previous winter I kept it in the garage and watered it a bit more t...

So I noticed something just the other day about the Pachypodium lamerei that overwinters in my living room... Besides the fact that it...

Remember the coconut I brought home from Florida ? I was trying to decide if I should try to let it sprout, or just eat it. I decided ...

In early January we took a much-needed vacation and spent a week on the beaches of Sanibel island in Florida. Since our days were spent...

If there's one thing that makes winter scary to a cold-climate gardener it's ice. Nothing has the potential for breaking the bones o...

Yesterday a spider surprised me. Today, I surprised a pair of turtles. They were doing private things.

The area underneath my deck was once wasted space, nothing growing there. Over the past few years I've been converting it to a fern bed,...