It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

The garden is getting to that point where most of the major work in some beds has been completed (even though there's much to do in othe...

Stringy stonecrop, Sedum sarmentosum, is probably the fastest-growing sedum around -- at least in the cold-hardy species. It's quic...

The other day I posted lots of photos of individual blooms -- up-close is my favorite way of looking at most flowers. Sometimes though...

Certain plants disappear for me for most of the year -- there's just nothing remarkable about them, or perhaps they get overshadowed by ...

Yesterday I showed you most of the plants I put on the north side of the new front walkway. Today guess which side we're going to l...

My recent walkway project ended for this year once I got all of the perennials planted. It's time to show you what plants I put here to ...

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...

Yesterday I posted part 1 of my visit to the Missouri Botanical Garden. Today I continue on where I left off. I'm nearing the southeas...

I'm terrible when growing spring greens. I've thought about it a little and I'm pretty sure there are a few mistakes I make, but...

Sometimes my posts have focus. A topic. Maybe they document a project. Maybe they have a central theme. Other times my posts do not. They...

The other day I received a package of plants as part of a trade. I took a brief look at the plants then, but didn't want to unwrap them...

Getting plants via mail order is fun and exciting. You place the order, wait a week or two, and a box shows up full of new plants. If you...

I've got a lot of different planting beds in my suburban garden: veggie beds, perennial beds, plantings of bamboo, huge ornamental grass...

Besides getting some seeds started inside the last few days, I also did another planting project. A week and a half ago I placed an order fo...

We've got three flagstone areas in our yard: the patio under the deck, the landing on the main stairway down to the patio, and the patio...

In my garden I use various groundcovers as filler plants. They don't really cover large portions of ground, but they fill in around stai...

It's about 20ºF warmer today than it should be: 80ºF instead of 60ºF, and the same for tomorrow. This means two things: 1) I should be s...