It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

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 ...

I've written about my start in gardening before , where falling trees in my yard created impromptu planting beds, and the bug bit me. Th...

With a temperature around -3ºF (-19ºC) this morning, I'm looking for anything to take my mind off of the cold and the snow. So I tu...

I wasn't planning on doing a lot of mulching this weekend, but the unannounced delivery of the wood chips changed my plans. Sixty-...

I think this is the final of my "tiny things" posts, but it's a subject that I could probably spend a week on itself: the wate...

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...

Today I start a series of posts I'm calling "tiny things", for reasons which will soon become apparent. Some weeks I wonder ju...

There's something so calming about watching pond inhabitants for me. After building the pond last fall I couldn't wait for spring so...

The pond has already been teaching me interesting things; surprising me in many ways. One of the surprising things is the honeybees, an...

One thing I learned late last summer is that although bamboo is certainly beautiful in the garden... ...cut bamboo canes also look fantas...

The stars of my late-summer through freeze garden are always the hyacinth bean vines . I started growing these beautiful annuals a few years...

You know the Datura inoxia plant that is growing in a crack in my driveway? Do you know who loves the blooms? Bees. They love them so muc...

One of the things I love most about summer is hummingbirds. I love seeing them feeding on the flowers in my garden, love hearing them twitte...

Although there are still some emerging, the cicadas are in full find-a-mate mode, which means noise. Loud, loud noise. (If you're not su...

Deer in my yard is not an uncommon occurrence. I've written about the deer that come through daily, nibbling bamboo and other plants. I...

This past week I've posted a few times about a big bamboo removal and planting project (there's really no such thing as a small bamb...