As I've been garden coaching so many of you, one thing we often discuss is letting the garden grow, hopefully making it simpler to …
Yellow flower parade
Throughout July and August, my garden is a yellow flower parade. Yellow flowers know pollinators love them, so many start …
Weeds have superpowers
Weeds have superpowers. Like Marvel super villains, weeds are tenacious and difficult to control, and they don't realize they are …
Easy plants for your containers
Last year, I wrote my container garden tutorial, but I neglected to post the information about easy plants for your containers. …
What flowers in fall?
If you search perennial gardening in Oklahoma this time of year, you might want to know what flowers in fall. Well, here I …
Plants I love in the garden now.
These are the plants I love in the garden at the beginning of October. The weather is still hot, but changes are coming this week. …
It’s August, and it’s hot.
It's August, and it's hot outside. The weather has been in the 100s for three weeks straight, but good news is on the horizon. A …
Garden questions
We opened our garden a week ago Saturday, and people had lots of garden questions. I figured my internet friends do too. And I …
Ephemeral Spring Beauties
While these flowers aren't true ephemeral spring beauties in that they don't bloom and then go underground for summer, they don't …
Ten ways to enjoy your garden more
Last Saturday, while planting pansies and violas for fall and cleaning up my front borders, I began to ponder ten ways to enjoy …
Creating swathes of color
Let's chat about creating swathes of color. Yes, I'm spelling it in the English style as swathes because, as Anne of Green Gables …
Grow summer flowers from seed
One of the best ways to fill your garden with color is to grow summer flowers from seed. Growing flowers from seed is cheaper than …