Have you ever walked around your garden and thought to yourself, "I used to have fill-in-the-blank-with-missing-plant. Now where is it?" I used to have a variegated toad lily. Now where is it? …
Where Was I?
Where was I? Hints: Beavers make dams there. A heron flies overhead. The Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) was blooming just off a gravel trail. A fallen tree became a nurse log …
Philosophical Pawpaw Ponderings
And once again, I am not going to taste a pawpaw fruit from my pawpaw trees this year. My two pawpaw trees, this one pictured and another one on the other side of the garden, didn't flower all …
Hurry, Fall Is Upon US
"Hurry, Fall is upon us." But there was no "hurry" for the colchicums who waited all through spring, when crocuses got all the attention. And kepting waiting all through summer when countless …
My New Favorite Marigold
Meet my new favorite marigold... Ugh, I just realized that there is a weedy ol' nutsedge right in the center of this photo I took of my new favorite marigold. I'd never make it as a garden …
Wildlife Living the Wild Life, In My Garden
As I stepped off the front porch and onto the front walk, I heard the fluttering of wings and looked over at the large spruce just in time to see... A large bird—a hawk, an owl?—fly off and around …
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