Planting in Succession Transient, fleeting, momentary… They are nature’s harbinger of a new cycle. Just when you thought winter would...

He thought he’d play a trick on me. Just turned fourteen, my son - with a captive audience of a few friends – grabbed one of those crazy,...

I was devastated. The beautiful purple flowers fell off; one by one. A friend had given me her prized orchid a few weeks earlier as she...

Twas the night before Christmas And all through the land, not a family was together - large "gatherings" were banned. The stockings were...

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...