While visiting a neighbor's garden, he showed me his beehive. He was just demonstrating how friendly the bees were by putting his bare ...

I ordered my mums through the local Garden Club. The mums are so large ($8 each) that eight mums nearly filled my truck. The change of s...

I celebrated the first day of fall by going on a local garden tour--a fundraiser for a little K-6 alternative school . What i saw were som...

I sit out on my deck in the dark on these warm September nights and listen to the chorus of crickets and tree frogs. I smell the overpoweri...

I was on the flower committee for a neighbor's wedding. She choose dahlias and zinnias from a local flower farmer, plus a scattering of...

In July, i bought Red Malabar Spinach to spruce up the flowerpots on my front step. Even though the name sounds like a vegetable, the plant...

Last evening was cool, so i fired up the woodstove. In between the first two logs i pulled out of the woodshed was a snake skin. Which giv...