It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

A quick look at some siblings of the wild variety in my garden right now. Starting with chipmunks. I know what you're thinking. You...

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

If you've been following along regularly you'll know that I updated the pond this spring: emptied it, made it a bit smaller, refill...

It's been quite hot here in St. Louis for the last week or so, and dry. Well, "dry" is maybe not descriptive enough, so I'...

One thing that I've learned in the few years that I've had a pond in my garden is that Spring means toads, who spend most of their ...

Yesterday I posted butterfly photos from summer 2007 to give myself a reminder of what's coming in the next few months -- this cold can...

More grasses to cut, this time in front of the house, closest to the porch. Mexican feather grass so lovely even when quite possibly complet...

Continuing my recent inadvertent theme of exclamatory post titles, I found something interesting yesterday. I spent several hours cleaning u...

A couple of months ago when I saw the first batch of tadpoles in the pond, I was very excited. Then when they grew legs and started leavin...

The other day and night we finally got a decent, soaking rain here. Things had been getting pretty dry and tired, but the much-needed rain r...

Another tiny things post;  I've already shown you the very young raccoon , the baby mantises . Today it's time to look at the tiny t...

I remember seeing two different sets of toad eggs in the pond this year. The first eggs were tangled in the rushes . The second were just in...

I want to jump ahead a couple of months into summer because the pond is progressing slowly right now. Still, I guess things are happening. ...

I've been doing a little bit of work in and around the pond -- so have the toads apparently. This is some of the red-stemmed parrot...

The other morning while digging bamboo rhizomes in Ted's garden , when we'd stop for a quiet breather we'd sometimes hear a rus...

Does your garden have toads living in it? Mine does. Oh, it's not that they're all over the place and I see them every day. I do see...