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It’s lovely. It’s lonely. One beautiful rose. Not much else going on in the bloom department today. And anyway, I want to move on to Christmas gifts for the gardener. So let’s go to Christmas Gifts for the Gardener – The Right Vase, Defined. What else is blooming in the November garden? To see what . . . → Read More: A Lovely One On Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day Days like today remind me that gardening, like so many ventures, is more about the ride than the results. Don’t get me wrong, I do love having a table full of dahlias to share, like these from a few weeks ago. And I love having this view as just one part of the vista we . . . → Read More: Enjoying November Gardening Tasks It was like a Normal Rockwell painting. Autumn leaves slowly swaying back and forth during their descent; a crunchy-crackly-kickable layer already covering the ground. Ghost and goblin costumed children laughing as they rolled down hills. A not so very scary maze decorated with spiders and cob webs, with even more children scampering throughout. Mike & . . . → Read More: Normal Rockwell Moments At Morton Arboretum I hate to admit it, but next month at this time, my garden will be pretty much done for the year. So I’m not going to admit it. I’m going to be oblivious to reality and just enjoy that my garden still has beautiful flowers. Oh sure there are dahlias. With 100 plants that go . . . → Read More: The End Is Near On Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day Beautiful flowers for Shermin. Creative fun for me. Looks like a win-win. Shermin’s engagement party just happened to fall during prime dahlia season. You can see that I had no shortage of blooms for table arrangements. Yes, there was quite a palette to pick from. You can see here that we even grow dinner-plate . . . → Read More: Shermin’s Day Some things just don’t make any sense. When I got this spider plant from Dawn last summer, I put it outside and basically left it to tend for itself. It was beautiful. Now, it’s been inside instead, and at the end of this summer, it looks bad. It’s really very sad. I garden with . . . → Read More: Watsamatter With My Spider Plant? How can it be that today is September 20th? Summer has come, and summer has gone. Already, my garden screams AUTUMN. The garden has an overall appearance of being less tended at this point. That’s because it is. That’s because I like it that way in the fall. There are spent blooms with seeds for the . . . → Read More: Autumn Abundance And Scarecrows Big fish, little fish, same problem. Big pond, little pond, same problem. Big or small, something always wants to eat the fish in your pond. Your pond could be big enough to be fed by a waterfall like Richard and Peggy Judd’s… Your pond could be as little as this one, also at the home . . . → Read More: Protecting Your Fish From Predators Summer is quickly coming to an end. Have you done what you wanted to do this summer? I think Yuriy Ardashnikov and Daniel Sikora have. Mike and I were out of the garden today and I talked to Yuriy and Daniel at Busse Woods in Elk Grove Village. (Note how seamlessly I tied this back . . . → Read More: Who Are These Kayakers And Why Aren’t YOU At Busse Woods Today? I’m told that salvia is planted at every gas station. That it is basically the bane of the plant world. That the gardener planting salvia doesn’t deserve to be called a gardener. No creativity. Boring. Expected. Ah…but every plant has a place. A purpose, even. So though our large garden is mostly perennials, I did . . . → Read More: Using Salvia To Unite Your Plantings |
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