I swear this is the last time. If weather or animals take out this birdbath again, I'm giving up. This is the $5 birdbath that lost...

This is why we can't have nice things. A cat or a raccoon or someone who really hates birds broke the $5 birdbath that I drove all ...

There's an old adage that in the first year your plants sleep, the second they creep, and the third year they leap. For some of the plan...

I'm a little embarrassed; I'd never actually seen one of these in real life until this guy showed up in my yard. Turdus migrator...

I moved the birdbath from the backyard to the driveway strip so I can see the birds playing from the kitchen window. I love watching birds i...

An hour and a half before sundown is not an early enough start time, especially when we're still in huge-ass-spiders-in-the-garden se...

I saw this tutorial in Better Homes and Gardens on how to create a picture frame planter full of sedums . It's amazing. I want one. I w...

One single month ago the stump area looked like this. The peonies and lupine are growing like gangbusters. I want to divide this lupine...

Last fall, right after I got back from Hawaii, I discovered that the patio umbrella had fallen over, taking the table with it and smashing t...