I haven't seen any rabbits hanging around my garden for several weeks now. Where are they? I uncovered the peas, lettuce and spinach, and so far, the rabbits haven't eaten them.Perhaps I have …
The Weight of Flowers and Springtime Activities
This giant shrub can barely hold up its branches under the weight of the ginormous flowers that are its lot to bear.Just look at it, this Snowball Bush, Viburnum opulus ‘Sterile’. Look at those lower …
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Spring Freeze at the Garden Center
Have you ever experienced a spring freeze at a garden center?Everything is set. It’s spring and the garden centers are stocked with hanging baskets, flats of annuals, and rows of trees and shrubs and …
Eve of A Gardening Vacation
Perhaps in a few years we will look back on this spring of 2008 and declare that it was one of the best we've ever seen.Though it is early, all indications are that every blooming tree, shrub and …
Faces in the Garden
Do you know what creeps me out in a garden?Faces.Faces molded into the sides of containers. Faces in stepping stones. Faces attached to heads that just sit in the garden, sans bodies. Faces attached …
A Morning Walk Around The Garden
New spring blooms are showing up in my garden as fast as rabbits appear when I uncover the lettuce bed in the vegetable patch.This unnamed Allium greets visitors right before they step up onto the …
