Roses and Other Gardening Joys

Poison.  When it gets in you, it courses through your body.  You have no control over where it may attack, how strong it will be, how it wil...

Lemon sorbet is used to cleanse the palate between courses in a meal. Last week, I was treated to a vacation in Galveston, and it was glor...

I don't do facebook.  I don't tweet.  I don't keep up with movie stars.  Or authors.  Somewhere I randomly read that P. Allen Sm...

I love to see dragonflies.  There are many times I see them when I'm out in the garden. Sometimes I will see a swarm of them.  Why ...

It's July!  It's July!  It's July!  And that can sometimes mean unbearable heat, drought conditions, and dormant blooms.  But no...

You may be getting tired of seeing my mulching progress.  But, I am so thrilled to have some of these beds reclaimed! Yes, believe it or...

"Have you been working in your garden?", a friend of mine asked me the other day.  "You haven't been letting us know on y...