It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

I've given the milkweed patch in my garden a few years to start attracting swarms of monarch butterflies, and because this is common mil...

This is one of the times of the year when the invasion is most apparent here in Missouri, at least in the St. Louis area. The invasion ...

This past Christmas we received a nice gift of some scented candles. I'm not a candle fanatic like some people, but I really do love som...

When overwintering plants, I often try experiments. Take cuttings instead of overwintering the whole plant, keep some plants dormant, others...

I've been writing about little problems that I've been fixing lately . Today I have another problem to show you, but I admit I don...

There are things I forget every year in the garden. Late winter is when I usually notice them: things I should have done last year, plants I...

A couple of months ago I posted that I was going to dig up the dozens of 'Moudry' fountain grass seedlings that have been peppering...

Last year one of the new plants I tried was plumeria. I bought a couple of cuttings (which looked like fat sticks), planted them in pots an...

Today I'm going to talk about mistakes. One mistake in particular. One that I've made before, and swore I wouldn't repeat. Then ...

Part of the reason I have this blog is so I can remember things that I've done in the garden, both the good and the bad. Late winter is ...