Roses and Other Gardening Joys

My garden is pretty in the spring, when the roses have their first flush.  But my garden is truly a summer garden, with many plants coming i...

Of all the butterflies in my garden, the Swallowtails are the most showy.  They have large wings, so large that they fly as though these win...

101:  Used by colleges to refer that this is the basic introduction of a subject. 101:  The temperature (in Fahrenheit degrees) we have alr...

Last month for Hope Grows Day , I was anticipating what would spring forth from the bulb garden.  Well, look and see: Lilies! Lots of l...

"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."   - Epicurus Echinacea, Europeana rose, pink"rock rose...

OK, face it.  There's not really a joy in having a drought.  Plants get parched, they begin to die.  Watering becomes a chore that has t...

When I posted  about the rose Souvenir de St. Anne and stated that it was designated as an Earthkind rose, several commenters had never hear...