When we were in St. Lucia, in the Caribbean, a few years ago, i bought a bottle of banana ketchup. I like to try local food.  However, dou...

The deer are nibbling my arborvitae, as i suspected they would. I've seen rows of tall arborvitae shaped like popsicles with a long bare...

Now that it's February, my passive solar house has beach weather every sunny day. All that glass on the south side of my house turns my ...

The rhododendrons are talking to us. Baby, it's cold out here.  With temperatures in the single digits, i agree. The rhododendrons have ...

  A new word has entered my gardening vocabulary: Curated. I have a curated garden. Expensive gardeners are now called curators of the garde...

  The polka dot plants that i brought indoors in October brought some hitchhikers with them--impatiens seeds. Outdoors, i had planted the po...

In October, i dug up my polka dot plants ( Hypoestes ) and brought them indoors. Usually, the polka dots go to seed and die. This year, i cu...