Summer in Review

Maybe the best spot from which to view my garden is the upstairs bathroom window, while sitting on the pot. … More

A Loss

The fig has died, I am afraid. I don’t usually get too sentimental or even upset by the death of … More

Rats and Bleeding Hearts

The peas are well up, the lilacs are blooming, and the bleeding hearts are dripping their flowers over drifts of … More

A friend returns

The bat is back. I hope of course, that it is the bats, plural, that area back. It is the … More

Truly Spring

The daffodils are blooming, as are the camellias. The camellias are more brown than pink this year, due to the … More

A Long Winter’s End

There are crocuses blooming in the snow, and daffodils in bud. Plants, surely, have some inside information that this long … More

An old friend

What does it say when a garden blogger hasn’t blogged in six months?  Nothing good about the garden, I can … More

Espalier Update

The espalier pears are growing, thankfully.  I was worried I had taken off too much, and that they would die. … More

Surprised, Again

Those little white bells along their green stems are perfuming my living room, along with a vase of white and … More