My sweetie and i are vacationing in Hawai'i for a week. Croton, ginger, and bird of paradise are growing right outside the door of the c...

Today i walked through the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden in Portland Oregon with a 91-year-old friend. It's November and rhodode...

I will return to this blog on December 1.

photo from www.quickcrop.ie We are leaving for vacation tomorrow, which means giving all the vegetables in the refrigerator away. Findin...

Someone's been eating my parsley. Harrumph. I went out with clippers to cut my parsley harvest and make delicious parsley pesto, but a...

My sweetie bought a Kwanzan cherry tree for me for Mother's Day about 20 years ago. Our lawn was really too shady for it, so it limped a...

27 degrees this morning. This hard frost is the death knell for geraniums and chard. Petunias and parsley limp along. Broccoli, kale, and ca...