With an online garden blog, I can easily portray an image of my garden that is like paradise. Pretty flowers, green grass, interesting insects, serene sunsets, soft rains, and more vegetables than can …
Green – My Favorite Color
No, I've not run out of pictures of flowers and other more interesting plants in the garden. I just wanted to show everyone how green the grass is in MID AUGUST in the midwest, at least where I live. …
Blue Fruit and Blog Stuff
This is some blue fruit (berries) on one of my viburnums, Viburnum dentatum "Chicago Lustre". I don't think people plant enough viburnums and other large shrubs in the landscape. At least I don't see …
More to Learn, Corn and Grapes
Every day I learn something new when I garden. Today, I learned more about growing corn, and how I might be more successful with it next year. For those who have kept up, I was quite concerned earlier …
Freckled Flowers
I once suggested that a theme for a garden might be "freckled flowers" or "flowers with spots on them". We could include many types of lilies, some foxglove, and this lovely canna blooming in a pot on …
Red
"Red sky at morning, sailors take warning,Red sky at night, sailors delight."The sky this morning was red, a foreboding of the rain we had later on. We've been fortunate ALL summer to get rain when we …
