It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

A few years ago I grew Pennisetum Vertigo (cultivar name 'Tift 8'), a large, purple grass with wide leaves. I loved this grass, but...

One of the best things about gardening in the heat of the summer is plant sales. Unlike the spring (and early fall to a lesser extent) the n...

My friend Loree over at Danger Garden does a lot of walking, driving, traveling. Well, a lot compared to me. During these excursions she ke...

With the first hard freeze expected Saturday evening, I thought give you one last look at the stars of my late-season garden: the castor bea...

Random things from around the garden, starting with milkweed bugs (Oncopeltus fasciatus), not yet mature (nymphs): These are on the swa...

This might be my favorite time of the year in the garden! I don't have time to say much, but here are some of the reasons why this ...

Grasses are one of my favorite plants to grow, and one of my favorites of the last few years has been "Vertigo" fountain grass (Pe...

A bit how I feel this Monday morning, but more about noticing the fuzziness in the garden. The Pennisetum are all coming into their own...

I've got several interesting posts planned for this week, but since I've got a bit of a cold and a headache, I'm taking the easy...

I've been quite busy recently, not only preparing for the cold air that's now here and is resulting in low temperatures of 25ºF (-4º...

I thought I'd end the week with a few views that I particularly like in the garden right now. The southeast corner of the house is ...

Back to Portland, to the photos from the Garden Bloggers Fling in July. If you've been reading regularly you may remember that Saturday ...

After what I believe to be about 3/4" (2 cm) rain total over the past two months or so, we finally got a good soaking here in the St. L...

The last stop of the first day of the recent Garden Bloggers Fling in Portland was another private garden: Westwind Farm Studio . The name i...

I don't have time to say much today, which is sometimes how things go in the garden: you don't have time to do very much but need to...

More grasses to cut, this time in front of the house, closest to the porch. Mexican feather grass so lovely even when quite possibly complet...

Grasses are one of my favorite plants to overwinter, as they're so simple and rewarding. They need minimal care, are tolerant of periods...

Yesterday I took my nephew to the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial here in St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch , or as it's more c...

It's been a week since I potted the divisions of Pennisetum 'Vertigo' and Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' (purple fountain...