I may be late but many of my blooms are early this year. We have tulips already, for Pete's sake! The daphnes, hellebores, and Pieris ar...

I love spring. It's all tulips and plant sales and the anticipation that I've finally figured out that area of dry shade and it...

One of my tulips mutated or reverted and is now yellow. And it had the audacity to produce an offshoot bulb! Part of me doesn't care,...

My apologies to those of you still buried under snow. It was pretty glorious in Portland this weekend, with the weather hitting 75 degrees. ...

Annie of Annie's Annuals calls herself a "flower floosie." I'd probably lean toward calling myself a shrub whore but now ...

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've been waffling on big garden projects, excited to get going but unsure if I have the free weekends to put in the work. If I rush ho...

1. I've been a little scattered lately, my weekends thrown off by the fact that the boy has been traveling for work a ton. Like, half o...

I've been so starved for action in the garden that I've been running into the backyard when I get home from work and scanning the gr...

Somewhere in the last two months I forgot how to blog.  There was an incident with the big window in the front of my house (turns out it...