It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Making our way home from Colorado involved three days of driving. I didn't want it to just be a rush home though with nothing to look fo...

You may remember over the summer when I salvaged "the rock" from my childhood yard and placed it in my front garden. It seem...

If you are one of the few who follows my garden persona (@inwig) on Instagram you've gotten a sneak peek, but my Pachypodium lamerei has...

After a week in which we received somewhere around 6" (15cm) or more of rain here in St. Louis, I now have a gravel pile in my garden. ...

I'm whipping through my list of garden projects : first the trellis , now the path that runs next to that trellis. If you remember, this...

Yesterday I posted about an early-season visit to a local nursery: Sherwood's Forest . That trip on Saturday did not end after that, as ...

Back in the garden this weekend after more than 10 days, and the cool weather inspired me to do some digging. As most of these projects go, ...

The south side of my house has always been a challenge to plant. Hard-packed clay soil, a fairly steep slope, sun-baked in summer but full s...

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...

One of the things I like most about having a blog is that it introduces me to lots of like-minded people: experienced gardeners, beginners, ...

This past weekend was three days long for me, and I tackled a few projects -- some that I knew about previously (bamboo rhizome pruning), bu...

When I was growing up, comic books were one of my main imagination triggers. I loved the Marvel comics (no DC for me!) and trips to the loca...

As the interesting part of our August roadtrip vacation was coming to a close, we had a rare full day in the same camping spot -- no leaving...

I'm back to posts that detail our August roadtrip. So far we've been to the North Dakota badlands , Yellowstone , Grand Teton Nation...

The evening bike ride really tired us out, but after a good night's sleep we were ready to break camp and see the tower up close with s...

I spend a lot of time focusing on the views of my own garden, but I can see my neighbor's yards through my windows too. What do they hav...

Actually, "rock" is probably not the most descriptive title for this post. It's just that " weathered garden rocks c...

Yesterday I "finished" the walkway that I started earlier in the week . That first day I dug the walkway, filled with base rock, a...

At some point this summer I decided that we needed a walkway going from the street to the front door. Our existing walkway goes from the fro...

This Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides' was planted in 2006 when we had the trees taken down and I built the patio area. It was abou...