It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

For a couple of years now I've contemplated a fairly drastic change in the garden, but I could just never bring myself to make it happen...

I've been contemplating a drastic chop of one of my bamboos for several months. Since cutting a large, established plant to the ground i...

As you probably have noticed, I've been going long stretches this summer without posting -- sometimes only one post a week (or less)! Ma...

I had forgotten that I drastically pruned another ficus last year, and thought I'd show that too. I bother to post about these prob...

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...

For weeks the front walkway has been a problem. Rains and vigorous growth had made this more of an obstacle course than a place to walk. The...

As I mentioned recently, I've had some time to spend in the garden finally, and this post is a look at some of what I accomplished. It m...

Is Friday becoming my day to scoop up the tidbits of the past week and press them into a coherent ball, a snowball of garden and plant obser...

It's the time of year that I have mixed feelings about: bamboo chopping time. It's a happy time because it means that spring is here...

The title of this post is a bit misleading, as I don't see the subject as really a "problem" -- not a big one at least. It...

Last week I talked about the cactus that always seem to grow during the winter , regardless of how much light or water they get. Although I...

My garage floor was covered by a significant pile of sturdy leaves yesterday: What's going on here?

If you may remember, this year I let the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) grow a bit wild. This plant spreads by rhizomes to form colonie...

I've been wondering if I've made a mistake this year with one of my bamboos. This Pleioblastus shibuyanus 'Tsuboi' was looki...

Although Spring is such a wonderful time in the garden, it's also my least-favorite when it comes to the plant that I'm most taken w...

A few days ago I showed you the front walkway , pointing out how difficult it was becoming to navigate, primarily because of the red whisker...

If you've been reading my blog for at least a few months, you'll know that this past winter was very tough on most of my bamboos. Al...

Sorry about missing a post yesterday, but I used the time to work in the garden rather than write about it. One of the things I did was pull...

That's what the plants on my growing table have been saying to me lately. Especially the grasses, which - as usual - have taken over and...

First, I want to apologize for disappearing briefly. Having missed a couple of days of posts due to a crazy work week which included some tr...