It’s fibrous and tight. It’s perfectly cylindrical. It’s the cause of death – for a beautiful Japanese Maple that graced our yard. We...

To blog or not to blog? To plant or not to plant? Questions that used to seem simple to me, have taken on more weight in this time of...

Like the “Boy Named Sue” the flower named “Pansy” is anything but. These cheerful, brightly colored early bloomers are some of the...

Have you seen those small, greenish pumpkin-like squash in the grocery or farmer’s market? Like many strange, hard vegetables, you may be...

It was like packing a Christmas box and stuffing it full of all the goodies you know the person would love, only we were filling waxed...

Lightly dusted in rich, red dirt, I joined my daughter and a dozen other young folks underneath the dappled shade of a big, live oak for...

Can I admit something to you? I love free stuff. I always have. In fact, I love it so much that when I was young and limited in my means,...

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I lost her. It’s not all that uncommon these days for me to misplace things, but my grandmother in her grave?! My suspicious hairs got...

We’ve turned the corner; summer is half-over and this year’s garden knows it. The hopes and plans that were born last winter and spring...