Once, I saved dish towels and aprons in a hope chest and fantasized about my future home. Nothing fancy. Instead, it was always a …
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Don’t hate me simply because I’m English cottage style
If my garden could talk, she'd probably say, "Don't hate me because I'm English cottage garden style." Unlike the woman at the …
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Easy-to-grow plants for the middle south
In between rain showers and sky-pounding thunder, I went out to explore and take some photographs. There is nothing prettier than …
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The bulb parade through another’s eyes
Helen Weis, a landscape designer who is my awesome friend, came over yesterday to bring me more Back to Nature compost. She and I …
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While I was gone
The drought has ended in Oklahoma. Praise God. We had five to six inches of rain at our house, and it rained off and on all day. I …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day 2012, March feels like late May
Weird and wonderful weather continues. We are getting rain this weekend, and although it may spoil spring break for many kids, I …
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Tell me why . . .
More people don't plant hellebores? I can't imagine a spring without hellebores. They cheer me by blooming early and laughing …
Take a couple days off from blogging, and . . . .
Your stats go into the clinker. Well, sometimes "real life" needs to ride shotgun in the pickup truck. Last weekend, I met some …
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Puttin’ on a show with summer bulbs
Well, you know how much I love spring-blooming bulbs right? My front garden is a kaleidoscope come Easter. A few years ago, …
Tomatoes I’m trying this season
Time to start tomato seeds in Oklahoma. I want to set my plants out toward the end of April. A bit early perhaps, but if I must, …
Oh February, you doll you! Garden Bloggers Bloom Day
February, you gray month of mournful passing, what has come over you? Light snow, a smidge of rain . . . do you think you're April …
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What a garden show should be: the Northwest Flower and Garden Show
Birches, chamaecyparis and confers of all types mixed with red-twigged dogwoods, hellebores and hamamelis (witch hazels) artfully …
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