It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

After a few days of heavy rain in the St. Louis area, heavy flooding is widespread . With perhaps 4" (10cm) of additional rainfall expe...

A severe storm moved across eastern Missouri yesterday, further giving evidence that although the garden enjoyed a mild winter, summer has b...

I have a problem with drooping, floppy plants right now. Everything was fine until the rains started last weekend -- three weeks or more of ...

We had some thunderstorms move through the St. Louis area last night just as it was getting dark. At first the storm clouds were reflecting ...

Is Spring all tulips and birds chirping and sunshine and wonderful things where you live? Well, in the midwest Spring is often those things,...

Yesterday was a weird weather day for much of the middle of the country. Here in St. Louis it was unexpectedly warm, the temperature of 72ºF...

You know you're in for an interesting day when you open the front door at 7:00 AM and outside is warmer than in, and almost hot, humid a...

The other morning I looked out of the bedroom window to survey the driveway plants. As you may have read , it's getting quite tropical o...

In the history of my yard's transformation into a garden, I stopped at late summer 2008, hinting about a storm. On September 14, the sto...

Summers in St. Louis usually bring a dozen good, strong thunderstorms or more. Strong winds, thunder, lots of lightning, and dramatic, cool ...

In my post on Monday I mentioned that we got some rain last Friday night, which has been the only decent rainfall in my garden for weeks an...