Gardening Blog Posts

Blue-mist flower is like a lime-green woven with lavender-blue fluffy carpet. Not only are they lovely to look at, but are a magnet for late season butterflies.

Weeds teach me that any day is a jubilee day, if I choose to recognize the joy in it! I’m going to personify my weed as a she, credit her with strength, resourcefulness, and independence. These thoughts read like the lyrics to a song. Here we go!

If you want your garden to be a monarch butterfly way station, you must plant butterfly weed. This statuesque, architectural statement in your yard is a miracle plant!

As perennials are finished and are cut back, now is the time to implement all those catalogue browsing, magazine dreaming, yard envy planning!

I’m dividing and conquering iris bulbs today. Many gardeners don’t care for irises because they only bloom for a couple of months off and on. However, what a show they put on in the early spring when summer warmth is barely kissing the winter cold.

As educators, September is our month to evaluate what worked last year in our classrooms and what did not. I challenge you to transfer this same type of positive critique to your garden.

I write a lot about the garden being my therapy and how strolling its paths can lift my spirit, or napping on the back porch daybed restores my body. However, the best gift my garden gives is the joy of sharing its bounty.

I agree! It’s way too hot to do anything in the garden in August. That’s why I named this segment “Chores” instead of “Checklist.” Persevere and go out early in the morning to beat the heat.