Summer in Review

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

A Loss

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

Rats and Bleeding Hearts

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

A friend returns

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

Truly Spring

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

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…

An old friend

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

Espalier Update

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