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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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