Leaving the Rocky Mountains on a cross-country drive, I wasn’t looking forward to the slog across mid-America. With the flat, straight...

I believe in the God of miracles. My mind does not question the raising of the dead, the site restored, the demons cast out by our Lord....

One doesn’t usually think of organic and architecture together, but most of us don’t have the imagination of Frank Lloyd Wright,...

One of the wonders of summer is the firefly. If you grew up anywhere outside the city, the fascinating blinking “lightening bugs” were...

Ahhhh Summertime: just the mention of the word summons fireflies dancing, crickets chirping, the ice cream truck singing, children...

A few years back a soft, velvety rosette popped up in my garden bed. At first I thought it was lamb’s ear, but the leaves outgrew any I’d...

Shade. Where would we be without it? My front yard can be literally 10 degrees warmer then the back where a large sycamore dominates the...

The larger they are, the harder they transplant. While that may not be the original phrase, it sure is true in the garden world. Last...

Things get old and overgrown, addled and unproductive. Sometimes the best way to keep an old plant alive is to essentially uproot it. In...

She walked over to a lovely, graceful bush – it’s arms bowed down with the most amazing little pink hearts; each one cupping a small...