It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

The walkway garden has been quite nice this year with a couple of summer additions . There are a few plants that are spent though, and it...

My bananas (Musa basjoo) did pretty well this year, even though they got little water. We had a mostly rain-free summer, and I don't rem...

I want to talk about a wildflower that is a boon to the late summer/early autumn garden today:  Eupatorium serotinum or "Late Boneset...

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...

Last weekend we attended a small wedding held at a unique location: Soulard Station . Once a Sinclair gas station back when historic Route 6...

One of the new plants I bought this spring was Hibiscus 'Kopper King'. I thought its coppery red foliage would look great at the end...

Somehow I was actually aware of the calendar this month and can actually participate in this month's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day ! ...

When I'm out and about I typically don't have my DSLR with me, so it's down to the phone camera when I see something that needs ...

Last weekend while I was cleaning up the pond, I realized there was something weird about the Petasites japonicus plants I have at the wate...

I have some photos left from my greenhouse visit of last weekend, showing off a couple of plant families with which I'm not very familia...

If you've been reading my posts for a while (thanks!) you probably know that I like to try a few new plants every year, whether in the v...

Last summer was the first for the new beds along the driveway. This is where I had lots of spring-flowering bulbs , and once their blooms fa...

Speaking of emerging blooms , what better way to give you a nice taste of the onrushing spring than some nice, cut flowers? Color, text...

Remember the Amarylis bulbs I talked about a few weeks ago ? They're almost ready to bloom. Another day or two and they should be i...

This is the last of my "plants I miss" posts, but it starts out with one of the first perennials I grew, 'Sweet Dreams' Co...

Yesterday I started looking at plants I once grew and now miss. I have another one today, but this one is a bit different. It's Mo...

During the dreary days of winter I spend quite a bit of time going back through my garden photo archives. Not only does it give me a taste o...

It's early December, and I'm amazed by the fact that some plants are still green and healthy. Maybe it's because I haven't g...

Well, the freezing temperatures have held off long enough that two of the Senna alata plants in my yard have started to flower! It woul...

Last year I grew cannas for the first time, starting with just a couple of 'Tropicana' rhizomes that I got in a trade and adding a m...