It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

I've had a decent (too big for my climate?) Agave collection for a few years, ever since several were gifted to me by a downsizing gard...

My planned post for today was thwarted by weather, with rain making it impossible to get the final "after" photo needed after a li...

With a hard freeze a day away, it's time to take some drastic steps. This hurts every year I do it, but this year less than usual since ...

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...

I started out this morning intending to just take a few photos of the Persicaria bloomss that were just being hit by the right type of morni...

My friend Loree over at Danger Garden has been encouraging her readers to choose a favorite plant from their gardens every week. She does th...

Humidity nearly 100% after more rain last night, and temperatures reaching 97ºF (37ºC) mean it's a quiet morning, blog-wise. Papy...

As noted in yesterday's post I visited my friend Mike's garden again this weekend. On the way back I drove by a garden display which...

Some days I just walk around the garden and enjoy. See what I can find. Something interesting. Something inspiring, beautiful.  Maybe i...

Stems, stalks, trunks, pseudostems, culms. Of course they're the vertical structures that raise the branches and leaves into the ai...

Yesterday I wrote about saving some water plants , growing them inside the house under lights. Those were small plants -- today I tackle the...

Even though I've only recently completed my pond and haven't done any planting around or in it, I already have several water or bog...

From the title of this post you might guess it's going to be about some spring flowers emerging, or perennials waking up from their wint...

It seems like just a day or two ago, but ten days ago I divided my 'King Tut' papyrus . It had been in the garage for a couple of mo...

This weekend I finally tackled a little project that I should have done two months ago. It's my 'King Tut' Papyrus , one of my f...

Friday evening it was forecast to get down to 25ºF (it did reach that) so before it got dark I had a lot of work to do. Although our normal ...

A couple of weeks ago I was at a local garden center to see if they had any large pots in the recycling bin that I could grab, and I decided...