What joy is ours when we go out to the garden to find bounty in it. It's why we grow vegetables, isn't it? And flowers, too, like this verbena that I let self sow all around my garden. It is bountiful …
Achieving Happiness in Your Garden: The Eleventh Secret
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae 'Alma Potschke' Before the festivities of Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, I attempted to post a secret I learned from the praying mantis. The garden fairies boldly intervened, …
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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – September 2011
Short's Goldenrod, Solidago shortii Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for September 2011. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 5b garden in central Indiana, I feel as though I am reliving the same …
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We see it all in the Fall, and hear a new secret
We see it all in the Fall. There's a remnant of spring in the new yellow rose buds, a touch of summer in the white rose flower, and a bit of fall in the orange rosehips, all on the same branch of a …
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Bulb hoarding
As soon as I read the headline, a thousand thoughts went through my mind. Did I buy enough bulbs this spring for fall planting? People are hoarding bulbs. Why are they hoarding flower bulbs? Do …
Auditioning insects
Fall, and the insects line up on the flowers like actresses and actors at an open audition. They hover, waiting to be noticed, to be discovered. Who will be the big star, who will be the next …
