I've recently encountered a few gardeners who never sow seeds. The idea of opening up a packet full of seeds and sowing them somewhere in their garden is foreign to them. Seeds are a mystery they …
Pansies in February
I wanted a chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting. Or perhaps sea salt caramel frosting. I'd been wanting one for days, thinking about it off and on whenever I either drove by a cupcake shop or …
The Smiles of Sunflowers
I don't believe it is possible to look at a sunflower without smiling. I've tried to do so since mine began blooming and have determined it is just not possble. As I stand on the ground and …
Turning Facebook Into Flowerbook One Pic at a Time
I seem to have become known for zinnias this summer, at least amongst my friends on Facebook. I've posted a lot of pictures of zinnias since they began blooming and started tagging them with …
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The Summer of Zinnias
This zinnia got the ball rolling, Every year, it seems like a particular flower, maybe one I've grown for decades, captures my imagination. In my gardening past, there was the summer of daylilies, …
Mignonette
Mignonette, picture from Select Seeds "Soon the rumor of its fragrance carried it across the Channel to London where it was so much used in window boxes that a writer of the time said, "We have …
