It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

I've been so busy lately, it's been difficult to even get out into the garden, let alone post about it. Once in a while though somet...

Saw a cool little spider on the rose the other day... ...and I just had to snap some macro shots. Note that if you're not a spider ...

I've been doing quite a bit of cleanup in the garden the last week or so, and much of that work involved pulling leftover leaf clutter o...

The Pacypodium lamerei just keeps going. Blooming for months, providing shelter for a growing mantis (since moved on), and now, well... ...

It's the time of year when the orb weavers and other big spiders are very visible in the garden. I've seen the large webs in many pl...

I was inspired to take macro photos of tiny insect nymphs yesterday. It's been quite a while since I've done this, and I'd forgo...

Friday the 13th, a good time for a post about a scary (for many) gardening topic: spiders! You do know that spiders are by some measure...

If you follow me on Instagram you'll know that I saw a nice fat female mantis in the ribbon bush yesterday afternoon. One reason that l...

One of the things that I love about having a garden is the amount of tiny wildlife it attracts. I've found so many fascinating and beaut...

How many spiders call your garden home? By some estimates and depending on the type of garden you have (grassy, forested, etc.) it could be...

This is going to be one of the shortest posts I've done in quite a while, but those MOBOT posts were long ones and they took a lot out o...

As I've recently said, fall is big spider time in the garden , and there are two that I've been watching and photographing. If yo...

I love this time of year in the garden. The grasses are all full, topped with fuzzies, and home to many noisy grasshoppers, katydids, and cr...

If you've been reading my blog for a while you probably know that I love the drama that large plants add to the garden: bamboo, elephant...

The other day I was taking some photos of my young "black bamboo" (Phyllostachys nigra), and discovered this little scene on one o...

As Halloween approaches, people are decorating their houses. There are fun decorations, scary decorations, and those that fall somewhere bet...

I've just spent the day in the garden working on step one of a bamboo project that will take another day at least, and I'm pretty mu...

I haven't been out in the yard taking photos the last few days, and I'm not sure of the reason. Yes, it's been cloudy and wet re...

I'm going way back into the garden photo archives for today's post, which is something I don't normally do except when I want to...