It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

My patch of Echinops 'Blue Glow' (aka "Globe Thistle") is in bloom right now: wonderful, spiky, too crowded, too big. ...

It's been a rough summer for the plants in my garden. Trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals -- they've all had to handle the heat and m...

There are a trio of spiky blooms in my garden this year. Usually it's just a pair of them, but this year there's a third. Here...

One thing I've learned about gardening is you have to be flexible. You can and should make plans for what you're going to plant, whe...

It's about 20ºF warmer today than it should be: 80ºF instead of 60ºF, and the same for tomorrow. This means two things: 1) I should be s...