It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Last year was a "weak" one for me when it comes to the garden. I didn't do too much out there and added very few plants. In fa...

Yesterday's post was about my biggest surprise of the year (baby fish). Today I will share a smaller one, found in the front walkway ga...

At least that's what the local garden centers all remind you, as most casual gardeners plant in spring and that's it for the year --...

Last year at one of the Schlafly Gardenworks events -- I think it was the summer gathering -- I picked up several free herbs. One of them wa...

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...

There are times when doing daily posts gets difficult for lack of topics. I typically have several days worth of ideas and photos queued up,...

I've noticed some cool and interesting things in my garden over the past week. Some more obvious than others. For instance, this ob...

Like all gardeners, every spring I have a long list of things to do: clean up, cultivate, weed, plant -- you know the list. It's not sur...

It's the 15th, which means it's time for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day -- a meme I participate in a few times a year when I actually pay...

As the forecast temperature tonight is 29ºF (-1ºC), our first freeze should take care of any remaining blooms in my garden. I've been ta...

I mentioned a few weeks back that the Salvia leucantha plants in my yard seemed to be blooming later than normal. I wasn't sure at the ...

It seems to happen every year. We have a warm, dry September and early October, and it seems like colder weather will never arrive. Then the...

It's that time of year when the Salvia leucantha starts blooming. I thought it was a bit late this year, but I checked my post from last...

My concrete driveway is about 40 years old. Since my yard slopes down from the front to the back, the driveway does too, except for the area...

We had another freeze the other night, but amazingly some flowers have survived, and the autumn colors are lingering, giving me a little fin...

As the leaves of the deciduous plants around me lose their chlorophyll and develop anthocyanin pigments , we're treated to a few days or...

It's one of those mornings when the garden just hits me right. I'm not seeing the weeds in the lawn (or should I say "lawn of w...

As you can tell by the title of this post, it's all about the fuzzy and the purple today, compliments of a single plant: Salvia leucanth...

One of the first flowering plants that I put into my garden, probably around 2002, was Salvia coccinea or "Scarlet Sage". I'm...

This is my wildflower and annuals bed. Although it was fresh and beautiful earlier this year and should still be looking pretty good now, th...