One Day in April

After a slow start to spring we finally have warmth, and we have flowers. Some of my favorites at this…

Garden Nemesis

Every garden has its particular nemesis, that one weed that outdoes all others. For my garden that weed is pilewort,…

I can’t call it spring yet, but these are the signs of winter’s end.

This winter’s project was a set of shallow steps and a retaining wall to manage the backyard’s slope. I have…

The paperwhite bulbs I bought in December have done their thing, and the amaryllis my mom gave me for Christmas…

A nice winter day means ladder time – time for pruning, repairing, tying in. And so on this 50 degree…

I didn’t want to garden, but I did. It is that late fall lull, where everything in the garden is…

Summer is well and truly over. It isn’t so much that it is cold or even brisk, but that the…

Is the gardeners. I made a new garden friend, and we immediately did what gardeners do: exchanged plants. I have…