Playing Favorites: New York Ironweed (Vernonia Noveboracensis)

Last year I fell head over heels in love with a plant I’d unknowingly already been in love with for years.

On being a beginning gardener (for the third time)

A short history of my 4 gardens, across 20 years and 3 climates.

Q for You: What do you garden for?

There’s no right or wrong answer!

Let’s get this garden started

Ok, the back story. Literally.

Linking About: Mimicking nature, dimming lights, and following the foxes

5 things that have caught my attention lately

Book Shelf: The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

This small book about a culture of reciprocity and abundance is more conversation-starter than road map — but it’s a vital conversation.

It’s a carport, it’s a porch — it’s the carporch

When the carport is the only place to sit in the shade, you dust off your chairs and make it work!

Snapshot: The little oakleaf that could

Valiant heroine, late bloomer, or both?

Heaven is a forest: An intro

Embarking on a years-long attempt to transform a bare rectangle of turf grass into a shady oasis.